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2015-11-10 Government

Federal Bureaucrats Find 'Superhighway' Around Fourth, Fifth Amendments

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-10 11:21|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials used a warrantless subpoena on a Texas-based grocery chain that fired an employee who failed a post-maternity leave physical fitness test, demanding the home addresses and Social Security numbers of every company employee.

The EEOC’s action was made possible because officials there used warrantless demands — formally known as “administrative subpoenas” or “civil enforcement demands” — that are rapidly replacing judge-issued warrants as standard procedure for federal bureaucrats on the prowl for information about individuals and every aspect of their lives. Such subpoenas threaten personal privacy and individual liberty at the very least and are almost certainly unconstitutional, legal scholars say.

“The government now has a superhighway to go around the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,” Tim Lynch, director of the Cato Institute’s project on criminal justice, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Long past time for tar and feathers.
And maybe a rope.
And a lamp post.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-10 11:23|| 2015-11-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#2 One would think that after all the executive abuses over the last 7 years that have involved administrative agencies, that Congress would be eager to reassert itself by reining in those agencies. Sigh.

Posted by Iblis 2015-11-10 16:14|| 2015-11-10 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Until the Republicans have supermajorities in both Houses of Congress, ie. 2/3rds plus oneof each, they won't be able to override presidential vetoes, because the Democratic whips will make sure their people only break ranks when it doesn't matter, like Senator Chuck Shumer on Iran.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-10 19:55|| 2015-11-10 19:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Or the 'Trunks' in the states, who are closer to the 'roots', get 3/4th of the state governments. Then they don't have to wait on the RINOs or anyone else in the Beltway.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-10 21:30|| 2015-11-10 21:30|| Front Page Top

#5 A Congress made up 1000% of McCains,Bohners and McConnels still would do nothing. To them we are the enemy, not Obama.

Posted by Caesar Hupomoque7314 2015-11-10 23:13|| 2015-11-10 23:13|| Front Page Top

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