Three Big Wins for Constitutional Government

The US Supreme Court has delivered a series of rare unanimous decisions that curb the power of the state and protect civil liberties.

In the first case the 9-0 ruling said that cops must get a warrant before they can go looking through someone's cell phone, even if that person has been arrested. The court held that in the modern world people keep much of their lives on their cell phones and that this clearly was the sort of thing the framers had in mind when they wrote the Fourth Amendment.

In the second case, the court delivered a stinging rebuke to President Obama's claim that he had the authority to decide when the Senate was or was not in session and could make recess appointments when he said so. Bottom line; no Mr. President, you don't get to decide when Congress is in session or not.

And in the third case, the still unanimous court struck down buffer zones set up around murder factories er... abortion mills to keep protestors away. The court, ruled that this violates the First Amendment rights of anti-abortion protestors.

All in all its been a great 24 hours for civil libertarians, constitutional government and the rule of law in general.