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EPISODE · May 17, 2024 · 36 MIN

Ruling Lets Gov’t TRESPASS on 96% of PRIVATE Land in the U.S.

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Your home is supposed to be your castle. But what about the land your castle sits on?  We discuss why it is that most private land in America gets no protection from warrantless government surveillance. We are joined by IJ attorney and co-director of IJ’s Project on the Fourth Amendment, Josh Windham. https://youtu.be/jN-VEE7fAEs related report Good Fences? Good Luck Released in the Cato Institute’s Regulation magazine, IJ’s study “Good Fences? Good Luck” is the first study to put a number on the amount of private property vulnerable to warrantless searches by federal agents thanks to a legal precedent known as the “open fields doctrine.” It finds that nearly 96% of all private land in the country—about 1.2 billion acres—is essentially open to federal government trespass.  read report

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