The supreme court, of the corporate United states, decides United States v. Ortiz: “The Fourth Amendment [is] held to forbid Border Patrol officers, in the absence of consent or probable cause, to search private vehicles at traffic checkpoints removed from the border and its functional equivalents, and for this purpose there is no difference between a checkpoint and a roving patrol.”

       [added 11/16/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.