"Your Car Is An Extension of Your Home": What does this mean?

[spqrzilla]

[asmo]

sorry grabbed the wrong statute, cant seem to find the right one this time,

The Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful search and seizure generally makes arbitrary police car searches illegal. If the police search your car without a warrant, your permission, or a valid reason, they are violating your constitutional rights. Nevertheless, police can search a car without a warrant in a number of circumstances.
Courts generally give police more leeway to search a vehicle than a home. Under the "automobile exception" to the search warrant requirement, individuals have less of an expectation of privacy when driving a car. It’s worth noting that states are also free to provide more protections to individual’s privacy rights.

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You need to learn the words "objectively reasonable".

If an officer really wants to search your car he *WILL*. It has been held OVER AND OVER AND OVER again that an officer is not liable for violating your 4th amendment rights - but right now the definition of your 4th amendment rights is completely vague and depending on what circuit you are in, there may (will) be different thresholds.

Then go and read about the exclusionary rule - and the good faith exception. Again, all an officer has to do is *believe* (for any reason whatsoever - including delusionary paranoia) that searching the car is the right thing to do at the time.

[spqrzilla]

Mmmmm, mmmmm, tasty tender horsemeat.