A Stitch in Haste

The District of Columbia's subway bureaucracy has announced that it will commence warrantless, suspicionless searches at subway entrances:
The program is modeled after one begun three years ago in New York that has withstood legal challenges. However, experts said it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of such searches, beyond assuring the public that police are [...]

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To review: There is a First Amendment right not only to free speech, but also to anonymous speech, and especially to anonymous political speech. That has never been seriously doubted in our history, and is deeply entrenched in Supreme Court precedent. See, e.g., McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995) ("Under our Constitution, [...]

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To review: A strange alliance of libertarians and theocrats emerged upon news that an intermediate California court had concluded that California law in fact barred homeschooling unless the parents employed or were themselves properly credentialed educators.
The theocrats were aghast because they are increasingly turning to (uncredentialed) homeschooling to ensure that their children are in fact [...]

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"…it is constitutional, because the courts say it is constitutional…"
–Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on the federal government's policy regarding search and seizure of electronic devices at border points.
Introduction
For some time now there has been a growing agitation, especially in the blawgosphere, over the increasing incidence of searches of laptops and other data storage devices [...]

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Reason laments the use by law enforcement of consent searches to evade the Fourth Amendment's requirement of probable cause to search or seize:
The other day, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois issued a report on "consent searches" that sometimes accompany traffic stops. Relying on data provided by local and state law enforcement agencies, the [...]

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There's been some panic-mongering in the blogs over a supposed provision in the housing bill requiring credit card processors to report (or be able to report) all, absolutely all, transactions to the IRS.
That is not correct. The bill includes a
de minimis exception for transactions of $10,000 or less and 200 transactions or less [that] applies [...]

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Unfortunately, he was the dissenter:
History tells us that it is not the fact that a constitutional right is at issue that portends the outcome of a case, but rather what specific right we are talking about. If it is free speech, freedom of religion, or the right to bear arms, we are quick to strike [...]

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Guess who wants your data records kept secret — very secret:
The New York Police Department is appealing an order to release an internal database of hundreds of thousands of street stops of pedestrians to civil rights advocates who want to analyze it for evidence of racial bias.
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In a decision in May on the New York [...]

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The rules of discovery are not among my areas of expertise. I learned the basics of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure's Rule 34 as a 1L, and promptly forgot them all.
The libertarian rules of civil procedure, however, are most certainly within my ambit, and I can spot a violation a mile away.
Google will have [...]

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