The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
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Related I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. STEVEN WRIGHT There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general con... RYAN SIMS I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. STEVEN WRIGHT Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on t... CHARLES HORTON COOLEY In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone record... RAND PAUL In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate. DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they d... BOB AYERS The secretary-general as of today is perceived as a diplomat and political person who has responsibi... ABDALLAH BAALI The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and... 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MIKE POMPEO In general, people haven't really taken strongly to these combination products, including phone in a... ALLEN NOGEE In general, people haven't really taken strongly to these combination products, including phone in a... ALLEN NOGEE When I was in graduate school there was an article that said the purest monopoly anyone ever had was... TOM YATES In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and... LEMONY SNICKET Constitutional officers have a hallowed place in Tennessee jurisprudence. Only the General Assembly ... ALLAN WADE The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a... ORSON SCOTT CARD For the most part, tech in general is not ahead of itself as long as the third and fourth quarter nu... TED PARRISH I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. STEPHEN WRIGHT Our investigators were aware of the contents of the memo prior to seeking the search warrants and ar... TOM SNEDDON [Thomas Jefferson explained,] Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, ... WILLIAM DRAYTON I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be... ADA YONATH Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. MEL FERRER To simply exclude communications from the coverage of FISA and allow secret wiretapping without a wa... KATE MARTIN The warrant and anything gathered as a result of that warrant are under seal. I cannot comment any f... JEFF LANZA One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespre... FRANK HERBERT This is an intersection in the Web of where Web documents come in. Inside the Web document could be ... 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ANDY HERTZFELD They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceive... JOSEPH AMATURO There was a general expectation that he would be called back to jail. There was certainly quite a lo... ILTER TURAN The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirem... DAVID GILL My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feelin... RICHARD BRANSON The rate of early cancer detection was better than what we see in the general community. But it rema... CHRISTINE BERG In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead o... RICHARD STALLMAN The people around the nation, but specifically in Arizona where operation Fast and Furious was carri... PAUL GOSAR You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main p... ABDALLAH BAALI The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-m... TOM COTTON Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The fourth quarter was an intensely competitive environment with general softness in the technology ... GREG HAWKINS Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but s... HENRY HEWITT People in general, especially young people need to be taught more about what segregation was like. T... DEAN ROWLEY It can be perceived as horseplay. There was risky behavior, but fortunately people were sober. ... P... JEFFREY SCHMITZ When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the six... Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' BEN BERNANKE A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run... DAVID WROBLEWSKI They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally ... HENRY KNOX Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dens... MARIANA FULGER That was how it was designed. It wasn't a last resort. It was designed to be a run. BRADY QUINN Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. BERTRAND RUSSELL Every woman needs to appreciate her natural beauty, but she also needs to analyze the topic of compl... 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