Did the Supreme Court Just Send Us to a Gattaca Future?

Courts Law liberties ScienceGattaca On Monday, the Supreme Court announced a 5-to-4 decision upholding the prerogative of the state to compel DNA samples of anyone arrested for a “serious crime.” The Anthony Kennedy majority decision (joined by Justices Roberts, Thomas, Breyer, and Alito) saw DNA samples as simply another method of identification in line with fingerprinting, and the cheek swab to be minimally intrusive, in any case outweighed by the state’s interest in identifying the person they have taken into custody. Justice Scalia wrote the dissent joined by liberal justices Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor, arguing that this was in fact a substantial shift in allowing scientific evidence to be compelled without a warrant for the de facto sole purpose of solving crimes. Noah...

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