Gov. Rick Scott’s callous and condescending plan to drug-test welfare recipients has been demolished by a federal appeals court. In a 54-page rebuke, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vigorously upheld a lower court’s ruling that it’s unconstitutional to make welfare applicants undergo warrantless and “suspicionless” drug screens, as mandated in a law championed and signed by Scott. “The State has failed to establish a demonstrable or peculiar drug-use problem among [welfare applicants],” the three-judge panel said unanimously. “If anything, the evidence extant suggests quite the opposite.” Scott’s law, it concluded, “offends the Fourth Amendment,” which protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure. Read more here: miamiherald/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article4300893.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 02:58:04 +0000