But focusing on Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure isn't just important for phone records and privacy, Paul said. The war on drugs has been a failure, he said, and while roughly the same amount of black and white youths smoke pot, the black youths are more often imprisoned because of economic and racial disparities in the justice system. If the Republicans say, "We'll defend your freedom," he said, it would make the party more attractive for minorities that are now voting Democrat.