…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.
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There was a bit of blogospheric buzz over whether "abort" is synonymous with "assassinate" (it's not), but that debate misses the point.
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I'm of course not defending sniff dogs — not even close.
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What's more interesting to me than the entrapment analysis is how this scandal relates back to Larry Craig.
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A response to David Freddoso's silly defense of the War on Drugs.
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Strip searches of students; the 14-year old "terrorist" sent to Guantanamo; the "Barney Fife" exception to the exclusionary rule.
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Guess who's asking "activist judges" to thwart "the will of the people"!
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This Oregon drug case is not one for the ages. I wanted to highlight it, however, if for no other reason than for the sheer purity of its lesson.
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To review: Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have crafted a plenary "border exception" to the Fourth Amendment. Bootstrapping long-obsolete doctrines about shipping, tariffs and contraband, the courts deferred as the government exploited one of the greatest loopholes in the Bill of Rights: the idea that only "unreasonable" searches and seizures are proscribed, and that [...]
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Today is World AIDS Day — and also the twentieth anniversary of the event. To celebrate, let's call for the elimination of health-related privacy rights and civil liberties generally: All U.S. measures regarding HIV testing, treatment and tracing are voluntary — a policy that has resulted in an increase in AIDS cases, many of which [...]
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