Fourth Amendment
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SCOTUS Rulings Lost in the News
From today's NYT piece on the Robert's court 'steady move to the right': In lower-profile cases, the court’s rulings continued to be good for business interests and bad for the Obama administration. “We shouldn’t lose sight of the court cementing its legacy as the most pro-business court in the modern era,” said Lee Epstein, who teaches
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Josh Marshall & Historical Vacuum Syndrome
Josh Marshall has created a firestorm among his liberal readership by coming out pretty strongly against the Manning and Snowden leaks. I think he gives a thoughtful, honest justification for his views, and the key to it is explained in these three paragraphs: If you see the state as essentially malevolent or a bad actor
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Verax: Loners Telling Truths
My two cents on the Snowden leak: Of course, I'm among those who admire his courage, and I am temperamentally inclined to side with whoever takes it upon himself to subvert the technocracy. But it seems a quixotic gesture, and one that is not likely to change anything. It's too bad that the Tea Party