Comments on: Eliot Smurfer https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/eliot-smurfer/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robin https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/eliot-smurfer/comment-page-1/#comment-11187 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:19:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5969#comment-11187 These money laundering requirements are another example of the Feds forcing private parties to perform their searches for them, thereby circumventing constitutional restrictions. These particular laws seem extreme in how far they have taken this, but there are other solid examples such as BATFE records requirements which form a defacto firearms registry.

The country needs some smart lawyers to figure out a way to get such government activity overturned on 4th ammendment or other constitutional grounds.

It cannot be (although I guess it is) that the government can force private citizens to do what it is forbidden to do itself, nor authorize people (via agencies of the government) to do what it is forbidden to do by the constitution.

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