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The New Professionalism

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On August 6, 2008
In the course of refusing to exclude evidence obtained through an illegal no-knock search in Hudson v. Michigan, Justice Scalia applied that the rule was obsolete:Another development over the past half-century that deters civil-rights violations is the increasing professionalism of police forces, including a new...

Graphical FISA

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On July 12, 2008

A useful tool. (Via Sanchez.) Bonus: Lanny Davis, a wanker for all seasons. (Davis: "The compromise bill would provide strict supervision by the special FISA Court." Sanchez: "This is right,.

Clinton’s FISA Vote

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On July 11, 2008
There seems to be some debate about whether Clinton's laudable vote against the FISA bill was politically motivated or not. Obviously, this is unknowable, although I suspect that she would have voted differently had she won the nomination. Josh Patashnik, however, makes the more important...

Are You Tough Enough?

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On July 10, 2008

No. (I suppose this could work with other entries from the Maurice Starr oeuvre: "Step 2! There's so much we can do! To capitulate to Bush and expand arbitrary executive.

Good, If All Too Quixotic

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On June 25, 2008
Dodd and Feingold to filibuster the House's awful FISA bill in the Senate. And Reid is co-sponsoring an amendment stripping the bill of the provisions providing retroactive immunity for corporations who illegally violated the privacy of their customers.I wish I could disagree with Jonathan Zasloff:Presumably,...

Caving

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On June 23, 2008

In a general sense, I agree that sometimes people can get a little sloppy about blaming "the Democrats" for the enactment of policies or nomination confirmations opposed by most Democrats.

Fortress Britain

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On June 12, 2008
Much rumness afoot in and around the Palace of Westminster these days. Gordon Brown, the mean, one-eyed Scotsman who took over from the Teflon-coated, happy-clapping Blair as Prime Minister has been lurching from one crisis to another, ever since failing to call an election* upon...

What He Said

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On June 12, 2008

Souter, concurring in Boumediene: It is in fact the very lapse of four years from the time Rasul put everyone on notice that habeas process was available to Guantanamo prisoners,.

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