Noel Llorente was just leaving his Opa-locka, Florida, home when armed men threw him to the ground, handcuffed him and kicked down the door of his home, dragging him back inside. Turns out they were federal agents looking for drugs. Turns out they had the wrong home.
The SCOTUS contender's 2019 dissent will alarm gun control supporters but reassure people who want judges to take this constitutional provision as seriously as others.
The case is an encouraging sign that the SCOTUS contender is not the sort of judge who bends over backward to shield cops from liability for outrageous misconduct.
The opinion, which suggests a strong concern about due process, will nevertheless be cited as evidence of the SCOTUS nominee's "uniformly conservative" record.
Under the broad terms of a 1934 federal law, the president has the authority to seize emergency control of almost any electronic device in the country.
The opinion was written by prominent conservative Judge David Sentelle.