Originally Posted by
Deeg
If you go back a hundred-odd years or more, Customs used to search every person, vehicle, and thing that came into the country.
Why don't I believe that? Perhaps because it's historically anything but true. The US government had far more limited resources to control borders a hundred or hundred fifty years ago than it does today.
Originally Posted by Deeg
Most likely nothing. Judges shouldn't care about the outcome. They should be concerned only with the question of whether probable cause has been shown.
Unless the judges want to be a lap dog for law enforcement, they sure should care about the outcome otherwise they are authorizing a fishing expedition, something that the Founding Fathers of the United States were very much opposed to allowing.