Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    11 months ago

    I’ll keep saying it; The Supreme Court is conservative, not partisan. They owe Trump nothing and have had a few surprising decisions lately.

    I don’t trust them a bit, but neither do I trust they’ll always make the wrong call.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think that’s right. A group that very strongly believes in the Republican Party and its agenda and values would still be definitively partisan. Partisan has always been used in the context of following party lines, not necessarily one person.

    • boreengreenEnglish
      92·
      11 months ago

      But you can trust they will make the wrong call after geting a very expensive vacation and a few dufflebags of money.

    • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Hey, thanks, that’s a useful (and probably fairly accurate) distinction and I’m happy to find that a positive shift in my viewpoint, if minor. The corruption might be a really big problem or it might be one guy who’s an aberration for being wildly outside the court’s norms, really unclear on that part. But I needed a solid reminder that it’s not quite yet another ruined and hypocritical institution we once held dear.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      43·
      11 months ago

      If you believe this, I’m not sure you’ve been paying attention.

      The Federalist Society is 100% in bed with the Republican party, and they have chosen essentially every SCOTUS pick by a Republican President since (at least) George W. Bush.

      They also stacked our federal courts during Trump’s tenure.

      To suggest it’s not partisan is naive.