The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to rule that police are free to search the contents of an arrested individual’s cellphone without a warrant, SCOTUSblog reports. A First Circuit Court kept intact a ruling that searches are unconstitutional, but the administration wants the decision overturned, arguing that “police have long had the authority, without a warrant, to search items that are found on a person whom they arrest” and that creating exceptions on an “item-by-item” basis would complicate police enforcement.
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