Thread by @ASFleischman

Justice Alito once dissented from an opinion holding that officers were not authorized to strip search a ten-year-old girl who was not named in the search warrant.

scholar.google.com/scholar_case?c…

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1327057402181668864

The officers claimed that they were authorized to search the child because they had asked for permission to search "all occupants." But the judge only authorized them to search the male resident in the warrant he signed.

Alito, then a judge on the Third Circuit, would have held that although the warrant did not name either female occupant, it was intended to, and there was probable cause to strip search them.

So if Justice Alito is concerned about the way that some politicians are perhaps overly deferential to scientists and experts, even at the cost of liberty, he may want to examine a jurisprudence that has often been even more deferential to law enforcement.

And you know, there are probably some other examples:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1327061584066166784