Ketanji Brown Jackson
Role at the time: U.S. Supreme Court justice, in a concurrence joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Condemned
Statement summary
Jackson argued that the search violated the Fourth Amendment.
“I write separately because I would have gone further to explain that this search violated the Fourth Amendment.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Ketanji Brown Jackson concurrence in Chatrie v. United States · Supreme Court of the United StatesJackson concurrence, printed pages 1-3 (PDF pages 39-41)
Jackson's concurrence, joined by Sonia Sotomayor, addresses the constitutional defects she finds in the second and third stages of the geofence search.
Why we used this label
Relative to the government's access to Location History, Jackson both rejects the no-search position and expressly criticizes this search as unconstitutional.