Federal judge overturns Florida law requiring drug testing welfare recipients

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Good deal. The Fourth Amendment is alive, even though RGA and ALEC have tried to kill it. Enough of the GOP meme of "welfare queens". It's been baloney since Ronald Reagan invented it out of thin air to win an election. Let alone requiring people applying for welfare to pay for their own drug tests.

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered an injunction on a Florida law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving state benefits.

An ACLU lawsuit filed in September claimed the Florida law violates the Fourth Amendment by requiring welfare applicants to submit to a “suspicionless” drug test. [...]

" ...the state provides scant evidence that rampant drug abuse exists among this class of individuals,” Judge Mary Scriven writes in the court order.

“The constitutional rights of a class of citizens are at stake, and the Constitution dictates that the needs asserted to justify subverting those rights must be special, as the case law defines that term, in order for this exception to the Fourth Amendment to apply. … That showing has not been made on this record.”

Talking Points Memo

Since July, 7,030 passed, 32 failed and 1,597 did not provide results, according to the state. The state said it does not track what drugs caused failures, but elsewhere the vast majority of cases involved marijuana.