Adam Liptak's roundup of a the forthcoming Supreme Court term -- one that could produce the most landmark rulings of any in quite some time -- is of course useful. What is likely to be the biggest case is well-known. This is one less prominent...
civil liberties
Another reminder.
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along with a majority of this.
America's best constitutional values are definitely losing it. ...see also.
I have a column up at the Prospect about the decision of the BART transit police to -- in the ignoble tradition of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- cut.
Since 1961, the Supreme Court has held that evidence illegally obtained by states is not admissible in court. Beginning with the Rehnquist Court, however, the Curt has been carving out.
So it seems likely that Rick Perry will run for president. To distract myself, I've been reading Bill James' new book Popular Crime. The chapter on Lizzie Borden, in an attempt to distinguish meaningful evidence from less or non-meaningful evidence, proposes a scale in which...
Some initial thoughts here. Another way of putting it is that the Republican position here is self-refuting. The injunction requires the release of tens of thousands of prisoners only if.
I have an article up at the Prospect putting this week's diminution of Fourth Amendment rights in context: That the other eight justices signed on to the majority opinion shows.
The great Linda Greenhouse: Fourth Amendment law is enormously complex (although not as complex as it once was, now that the state wins almost all the cases.)
Under the Fourth Amendment, searches of a person's home are presumed to require a valid warrant unless there are "exigent circumstances." The Supreme Court has also, logically enough, held that.
Ben Wittes believes that the new leaks about Gitmo are embarrassing because the government couldn't keep important secrets, and are inconsistent with the civil liberties of the persons who are,.