President Obama, by no means a tyrant, is far from the first President to be accused of circumventing the Fourth Amendment in the name of national security.
Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel circumvented the first amendment and closed the Gawker site he loathed for outing him as gay.
See Brief for Respondents, at 51. Further, Halleck and Melendez argue that the government cannot circumvent the First Amendment's requirements simply by delegating a public function to a private organization, as the City has here.
Are they playing for time while they try to devise yet another way to circumvent the First Amendment?" The judge had initially stayed his order for 30 days to allow the transportation authority time to consider appellate options or develop a new policy.
He also helped write the state constitution to disfranchise Negroes and circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment with a patchwork of Jim Crow laws (i.e., laws enforcing racial segregation).
Mr. Gallego's trial on murder charges, scheduled for next month, is the latest of several in which the defense argues that the police circumvented the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
Law enforcement agencies throughout the nation regularly circumvent the Fourth Amendment through a process called "civil asset forfeiture".
They helped racists in the South circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment and disenfranchise blacks, and even in immigrant-rich New York a 1921 law required new voters to take a test if they couldn't prove that they had an eighth-grade education.
"No court has ever recognized that secret, coordinated activity resulting in 'undisclosed' contributions to candidates' campaigns and used to circumvent campaign finance laws is protected by the First Amendment," Schmitz wrote.
In several decisions in the 1970's and 80's, Mr. Wolfson said, the high court held that the First Amendment could not be used as a shield by groups trying to circumvent state civil rights laws.
