Maryland v. King - 12-207 (2013)    No. 12–207    on writ of
certiorari to the court of appeals of maryland  [June 3, 2013]
 Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Ginsburg, Justice Sotomayor,
and Justice Kagan join, dissenting.       The Fourth Amendment
forbids searching a person for evidence of a crime when there is
no basis for believing the person is guilty of the crime or is
in possession of incriminating evidence. That prohibition is
categorical and without exception; it lies at the very heart of
the Fourth Amendment. Whenever this Court has allowed a
suspicionless search, it has insisted upon a justifying motive
apart from the investigation of crime.          At the time of
the Founding, Americans despised the British use of so-called
“general warrants”—warrants not grounded upon a sworn oath of a
specific infraction by a particular individual, and thus not
limited in scope and application. The first Virginia
Constitution declared that “general warrants, whereby any
officer or messenger may be command