Chatrie v. United States · ¶108

The Court should not have granted certiorari in this case, and under any faithful application of our precedents, it should now either dismiss this petition or affirm the decision below based on the “good-faith exception” to the exclusionary rule. Instead, the Court issues an advisory opinion concerning a now-obsolete “geofence” procedure. Last Term, the Court worried out loud about rushing in to judge “new technologies with transformative capabilities” that we barely understand. TikTok Inc. v. Garland, 604 U. S. 56, 62 (2025) (per curiam). In cases involving such technology, the Court proclaimed, we should take care not to “‘embarrass the future.’” Ibid. (quoting Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Minnesota, 322 U. S. 292, 300 (1944)). Today, the Court exhibits no such modesty.

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