In his latest piece on the Fourth Amendment in The American Thinker our colleague constitutional lawyer Mark J. Fitzgibbons details how the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has appropriated the power to seize medical records on 'Fishing Expedition' investigations with no subpoena from a judge.
A
United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement
Agency that an administrative subpoena may be used to search medical records.
It was inevitable, says Fitzgibbons, given the march towards illegally
nullifying the Fourth Amendment through use of these judge-less bureaucrat
warrants authorized by Congress.
Administrative
subpoenas are issued unilaterally by government agencies -- meaning without
approval by neutral judges -- and without probable cause stated under oath and
affirmation as required by the Fourth Amendment. According to Fitzgibbons there
are now 336 federal statutes authorizing administrative subpoenas, according to
the Department of Justice.....To Read More....
My Take - For those who read it, and for those who missed it, I think this is a good time to read my Friday, June 26, 2015 article, “It's Time For a Twenty EighthAmendment!”
My Take - For those who read it, and for those who missed it, I think this is a good time to read my Friday, June 26, 2015 article, “It's Time For a Twenty EighthAmendment!”
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