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TEACHER RESIGNS TO DISTRICT BOARD IN VIRAL VIDEO.
A teacher at Grosse Pointe Public Schools made a moving resignation speech in front of the district’s board of education during a public meeting Monday
SCOTUS Rules Police Cannot Search Homes Without Warrants in the Name of ‘Community Caretaking’
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that an exception to the Fourth Amendment for “community caretaking” does not allow police to enter and search a home without a warrant.
The “community caretaking” exception originated from a 1973 case, Cady v. Dombrowski, in which an officer took a gun out of an impounded car without a warrant. The Supreme Court ruled at the time that police can conduct such warrantless searches if they are performing “community caretaking functions” in a “reasonable” manner.
Monday’s ruling, in the case Caniglia v. Strom, centered on whether that exception also justifies warrantless searches of homes. In a 9-0 ruling, the court decided that it does not.
While Cady recognized that police perform “many civil tasks” in modern society, the “recognition that these tasks exist” is not “an open-ended license to perform them anywhere,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion. “The Fourth Amendment protects ‘[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,'” he continued.
LUTHERAN CHURCH ELECTS FIRST TRANSGENDER BISHOP
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America last week elected
Rev. Megan Rohrer to serve as bishop for the Sierra Pacific synod
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America last week elected Rev. Megan Rohrer, a biological female who identifies as a male, to serve as bishop for the Sierra Pacific synod, based in Sacramento, California, NPR reported.
In the new leadership role, which is set to last six years, Rohrer will oversee some 36,000 individual members from nearly 200 congregations in central and northern California and northern Nevada.
The 41-year-old bishop-elect, who currently serves as a pastor at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco and as a community chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department, told the Religion News Service that it was an “honor” to be called to serve the synod.
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