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Oh Please, Like A Supreme Court Clerk Would Ever Do Such A Thing...

We don't think any of the justices will ask their clerks to do this. Do you?

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I’m hoping that a law clerk is sitting in a back room wrapping a phone in aluminum foil.

— Professor Adam M. Gershowitz of William & Mary Law, noting that warrantless cellphone searches are unnecessary when they can be stored in Faraday bags or wrapped in aluminum foil to prevent the remote wiping of information. Gershowitz and other criminal law professors filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, which are both being heard before the Supreme Court this week.

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