this was the obama administration, the obama administration stepan said -- we have no expectation of privacy and public and therefore no warrant is needed. completely unnecessarily aggressive. once the government said you needed to get a warrant, the police said no problem, we were going to do it anyway. in this carpenter case, the courts hold again that you need to get a warrant before you can get five months of cell phone records. that will be a problem either because if you have a serious enough crime like the ones that were involved in the case, and enough time to get a warrant, you can get one as well. i think this is why chief justice roberts wrote the unanimous opinion and the riley cases said you cannot, when you are arresting someone, open their phone and search their a phon ne a cigarette the phone has our emails and we have an expectation of privacy. respect your dutiful effort to balance the interests of liberty and security, and i thought you did a thoughtful job in the balance, but these should not be hard cases. and they are not because they are nearly unanimous. the o