Government Cheating on the Sotomayor Surveillance Scale
By Jeffrey Vagle on August 24, 2015 at 9:59 am
In her concurring opinion in US v. Jones, 565 U.S. ___ (2012), Justice Sonia Sotomayor brought up a crucial point regarding a democracy's natural acceptance or resistance to government surveillance. As you may recall, the Court in Jones addressed whether the government's attachment of a GPS tracking device to someone's car in order to continuously monitor their movements constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment. Read more about Government Cheating on the Sotomayor Surveillance Scale