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tiahurayesterday at 10:06 PM1 replyview on HN

In law school we skipped border search cases because the border crosser cases can basically be summed up with “you have no right to privacy at the border.” This has been the common law for 5000 years. It has nothing to do with Trump, or cell phones, or anything other than the notion that a sovereign has an absolute right to know what is crossing its borders.


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Natfanyesterday at 10:45 PM

English Common Law hasn't existed for 5,000 years, which is what the American judicial system is based on.

unclear as to where you got this number

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