Scalia on privacy: ‘Blah blah blah, garbage’ — MSNBC

The Associated Press reports that, while speaking to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Scalia  suggested that the Fourth Amendment protects personal items from being taken from the government, not privacy per se. Unfortunately, he complained, prior Supreme Court decisions have found “there’s a generalized right of privacy that comes from penumbras and emanations, blah blah blah, garbage.” Conservatives have taken a dim view of the concept of a constitutional right to privacy since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion rights.