Comment by JohnFen

> If you're taking this view, any armed forces can do whatever they want and the constitution is just a piece of paper

I don't understand how you reach this conclusion.

> In practice, the evidence gathered by unlawful searches is going to be discarded in a court of law

Yes, of course. What I'm talking about is the threshold for when evidence is considered "unlawful".

The "reasonable suspicion" threshold is intentionally an extremely low bar. Low enough that it's barely a meaningful threshold. In practice, it's incredible easy for any officer to make up some articulable suspicion for pretty much anything.