Saturday Evening Judicial Reiew Post #6
Saturday, May 7th, 2005Building upon last week’s assertion, that today’s SCOTUS opinions are built on non-existent precedents, we want to further explore the ramifications of such practices.
We want to explore the issue of the nonexistent “right to privacy”. You may read the United States Constitution from beginning to end, and will not find any general right to privacy clause in it. It simply is not there. The framers did not assume such a right to exist, because criminal and evil activity could take place behind such a cloak of darkness, and individuals would escape accountability for such acts. There are numerous statutes on the books against such crimes as murder, incest, or rape among many others. If such crimes as the above were committed in the privacy of one’s own home, with a general right to privacy, the offending individuals would never face prosecution based on a broad right to (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
Tags: Supreme Court, right of privacy, Poe v. Ullman, Melvin L. Wulf, Griswold v. Connecticut, William O. Douglas




