Search and Destroy

Brian Doherty | 3.31.2004 2:02 AM

In the wake of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that cops don't need a warrant to search private property as long as they insist it's for their safety and the search is "cursory," the Supreme Court decides that any old search at the border is presumptively reasonable.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).