@freemo @justin Not to be a doomer, but I can't see this panning out well, even with the conservative majority court. While I hope freemo and I are wrong, there has been a significant, concerted effort from both the left and the right to erode the rights of private individuals and bolster the privileges of the ruling class and the various limbs of the government. A couple examples include civil asset forfeiture (and the *lovely* conflicts of interest therein) and the qualified immunity doctrine (implemented by the supreme court, not the legislature).

While I understand the constitution and the bill of rights themselves clearly prevent this kind of behavior, quite frankly most people in the government don't care. They buried both of these founding documents in a quagmire of indecipherable legal jargon that has only served to continuously restrict the liberties out of "the people", and they will continue to do so until there isn't a shred of actual freedom left.

Even if it isn't now, or in a decade, the slippery slope has slopped, and without a consistent, concerted effort to push this system back to the point of unstable equilibrium it was founded upon, we don't have a chance. As with all unstable equilibria, you have to put in energy to keep things where they are, or random fluctuations will eventually knock you down to the ground-state (read: authoritarian-state).