Liberal AG’s Climate Change Probes Abuse Fourth Amendment to Upend First Amendment
By Mark Fitzgibbons | June 23, 2016 | 10:18 AM EDT
Attorney General Maura Healey, D-Mass (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
In the state where James Otis famously argued in 1761 against the Writs of Assistance six years after Governor William Shirley was told that such warrants required approval by judges before being issued, Democrat Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is using search and seizure powers that King George III knew his colonial officials did not have – even before the Fourth Amendment became law over government.
In her climate speech probe targeting Exxon and conservative think tanks, Healey issued an administrative subpoena demanding 40 years of documents from the oil company. She never asked a judge to issue this warrant.
It seems that some liberal politicians believe it is acceptable to infringe on Second Amendment rights without due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, while other liberal politicians love to infringe on First Amendment rights by evading the Fourth Amendment, which was supposed to protect papers and effects from unreasonable searches.
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