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Via Common Dreams, the American Civil Liberties Union reports
[December 3], a three-judge panel at the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a 2011 Florida law mandating that all applicants for the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicion-less drug tests violates the Constitution's protection against unreasonable government searches.
[...]The 11th Circuit panel's order rejects arguments made by attorneys for the State of Florida that government has the authority to require people to submit to invasive searches of their bodily fluids without suspicion of wrongdoing, stating "the warrantless, suspicionless urinalysis drug testing of every Florida TANF applicant as a mandatory requirement for receiving Temporary Cash Assistance offends the Fourth Amendment."
[...]A 2012 review of the TANF mandatory urinalysis program found that the state of Florida spent more money reimbursing individuals for drug tests than the state saved on screening out the extremely small percentage.
(Score: 3, Informative) by arashi no garou on Thursday December 04 2014, @06:43PM
You'd be surprised at how many of these politicians aren't just pushing a platform to get elected; some of them live and breathe depravity towards other humans.
These days when people ask me what political party I'm voting for (and I do still vote, it's better than doing nothing) I reply that I don't vote for the party, I vote for the candidate that is the worst liar. That way it's easier to see the bullshit coming from a distance.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday December 09 2014, @03:49AM
Bimbo Newton Crosby, try talking to these hardcore Ayn Randiates and you'll quickly find they are really hardcore sadists, they really do find pleasure in the idea of stomping on poor folks.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.