Argue that all you want, but the fact is that politicians don't get paid all that much, yet Senators all live very well, well beyond what a $175k/yr salary would suggest.
When the fuck did $175,000 / year get classified as not "all that much." Both of my parents combined never made even close to that amount and we grew up fine and dandy.
I hate to bring reality into this discussion, but the bill that was passed allows the police to search phones of people "incident to arrest".
I hate to bring the Constitution into your pedantry but what the hell does that matter? The fourth amendment is pretty damned clear that an officer of the law needs a warrant to search your belongings. That guaranteed right doesn't get pissed out the window just because a bastard in a uniform slapped a pair of 'cuffs on you. If you are arrested, and if the contents of your cell phone can be reasonably demonstrated to be pertinent to the legal case that you are being held for, then let the prosecutor prove it to a judge and get a warrant to search it just like they are supposed to do with a locked box.
I don't know what your civics class taught you, but as a California native I was taught that folks suspected of a crime (under arrest but not yet convicted) still have the same Constitutional rights that all citizens of the United States are delineated.
For the record, I live in CA and voted for Jerry Brown in the last election
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