Windypundit on Mythryl: “My hot take: The Fourth Amendment says nothing about crossing…”

My hot take: The Fourth Amendment says nothing about crossing borders. Border officers shouldn’t be allowed to search your phone or anything else of yours without your permission unless they have probable cause for a warrant. Same as everywhere else.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.comTrump Should Need a Warrant to See Your PhoneFederal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

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