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AmericanChopper on Jan 14, 2019 [–]

Scalia had a pretty narrow interpretation of the 4th, and believed that ‘conversations’ in general were not ‘persons, houses, papers [or] effects’, meaning wiretaps were not within the scope of the amendment.

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