My Zen Arcade

As I posted earlier, it looks a lot like the Roberts Supreme Court is, basically, rolling back the 4th Amendment.  Muttrox posted a comment linking to an NYT article that goes into more detail, and points out a couple of cases that are currently begin decided based on the Herring decision.  For example:
In one of [...]

At what point do we just say “To hell with the Constitution”?Court says evidence is valid despite police error – Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Wednesday that evidence obtained after illegal searches or arrests based on simple police mistakes may be used to prosecute criminal defendants.
In short, so long as the cops THINK [...]

Am I the only one who sees the contextual differences between the three statements below?That aside, the fleeting expletive policy is just insane. What if Bono had gotten up there, tripped and banged his head and said ‘FUCK!’, which would be a pretty understandable thing to say? The fact is that if hearing [...]