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Softening of Patriot Act Support

A good article at Reason by David Weigel: When Patriots Dissent — Surprise: Standing up to the PATRIOT Act can be good politics. The article gives a nice background of the erosion of support for the Patriot Act, and while the drug war isn’t mentioned, it’s relevant. The Patriot Act was touted as a way […]

November 10th, 2005 by Pete Guither | Permalink | Comments are closed

Can your spouse invite the cops in over your objection?

Thanks to Daksya — Check out this excellent re-cap by Dahlia Lithwick of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Georgia v. Randolph. You can get a real sense of what mattered (particularly in 4th amendment terms) to the different Justices (and it doesn’t look good with our new Chief Justice). I agree with Dahlia’s conclusion:

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November 10th, 2005 by Pete Guither | Permalink | Comments are closed