Supreme Court backs wide police search powers

Supreme Court backs wide police search powers So police don't need to knock before entering now. Justice Scalia says the increasing professionalism of the police and threat of civil lawsuits will keep the authorities in line. This also seems to mean entry with a warrant, but that isn't so clear (Counselor Philip Seymour?). This seems to be about allowing previously tainted evidence in to court, so I presume this means the police can do whatever they want to get 'evidence' (are door to door searchers for drugs now legal, for instance?). Seems like bad news for the 4th ammendment. The only one of the Bill of Rights still intact seems to be #3 ("No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."). Thank goodness for that. I would hate to have to share my apartment.