Case v. Montana · ¶15

The Fourth Amendment provides that “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” At the “very core” of that guarantee, as this Court has often stated, stands “the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” Caniglia, 593 U. S., at 198 (quoting Florida v. Jardines, 569 U. S. 1, 6 (2013)). When the intrusion is into that most private place, “reasonableness” usually means having a warrant. Brigham City, 547 U. S., at 403 (“It is a basic principle of Fourth Amendment law that searches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable”). “But not always: The warrant requirement is subject to certain exceptions.” Lange v. California, 594 U. S. 295, 301 (2021). And among those is one pertinent here,…

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