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Congress just passed, and Trump signed, a law that makes all properties adjacent to the rail system operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Constitution free zones.
From TFA on zerohedge.com:
"In performing its duties, the Commission, through its Board or designated employees or agents, may: Enter upon the WMATA Rail System and, upon reasonable notice and a finding by the chief executive officer that a need exists, upon any lands, waters, and premises adjacent to the WMATA Rail System, including, without limitation, property owned or occupied by the federal government, for the purpose of making inspections, investigations, examinations, and testing as the Commission may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this MSC Compact, and such entry shall not be deemed a trespass."
As we all know, the standard in the 4th Amendment is a particularized warrant based on probable cause, "reasonable notice and need" as determined by the cops (i.e. agency chief), is not the same thing at all.
We already have constitution free zones within 100 100 miles of any border, and this provides a convenient framework to do a similar thing along any rail line (or road) so the Feds can liberate the center of the country from any form of Constitutional protection. Anyway ... the 4th Amendment is already dead at this point, but its piecemeal demise should provide a useful education for those clamoring for the demise of the 1st.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 28 2017, @06:07PM (1 child)
By what metric is this at all true?
1) He hands off his finances to his direct family, rather than a blind trust.
2) He has his family (in particular is son-in-law) as a major political advisor and representative.
3) He regularly goes to his (well, technically now his family's, see #1) own hotels and resorts for political and personal meetings, increasing their visibility and effectively using his office as a marketing campaign.
4) There is a suspiciously high correlation between middle-east countries not on his travel ban, and middle-east countries where he has a hotel and major business dealings.
5) He's appointed how many Goldman Sachs/Fortune-100 people to political office?
6) I've not seen his tax records to know his domestic and foreign entanglements... have you?
I could go on, but I'm too lazy to spend 30 seconds searching google. About the only metric I can think of which makes this statement true is that pretty much everything he's done has been wildly flailing and inconsistent, so horrible and blatant corruption by comparison to his other failings is not that bad.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday August 29 2017, @12:24PM
Yeah...Perhaps he just pisses off the corporate masters because he's doing things backwards.
Instead of giving a bunch of money to various corps so that he can get paid by them once he leaves office, Trump already has his own corps and he's just giving the money to them. And I suppose some people think he looks impartial for not taking bribes -- but that's only because he's bribing himself!