Court Opinion

ID: 9459599
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:25:04.974083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:14.117594
License: Public Domain

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring):
Under the commands of Moreno I concur only in the result. The exigencies of skyjacking and bombing, however real and dire, should not leave an airport and its environs an enclave where the Fourth Amendment has taken its leave. It is passing strange that most of these airport searches find narcotics and not bombs, which might cause us to pause in our rush toward malleating the Fourth Amendment in order to keep the bombs from exploding. Seeking to prevent or detect crime, standing alone, has never justified eroding the right to privacy, and I continue to hope that we will soon return to the hallowed and halcyon days of the Fourth Amendment.