The Supreme Court’s recent 8-1 decision in Heien v. North Carolina sadly turns the old slight “close enough for government work” into Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

Americans have good reason to fear and loathe this latest creative interpretation of the Fourth Amendment because it weakens the rule of law over government.

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