All Hank, all the time.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Spanky
The 4th Amendment doesn't apply at the border. Once you leave the country the constitution does not apply any more. If you carry money into the United States, Customs can search it at the discretion. If you carry a message with you, customs can check it. Why should an incoming phone call or bank transaction be any different?

Who cares? As noted by Dahlia Lithwick, "the administration isn't really asking for constitutional blank checks. Why should it, when the president thinks he has his own constitutional Swiss bank account?"

It seems to me that the whole Bush Administration attitude toward the Constitution and what the Supreme Court thinks of it is similar to that reflected in that great quote of Andrew Jackson's when he was told that the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the Cherokees -- "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

It's all worms, Roxanne.