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The importance of a warrant

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The point of a warrant is that a person who is not involved and is objective listens to what the policeman is saying, knowing that

sometimes, like me or any other human being, a policeman can get a little carried away. So if, in fact, he does show the warrant, that there is this basis, you issue the warrant. Many, many and if he doesn’t you don’t. It isn’t because they’re difficult legal questions. It’s just you want that third dispassionate mind to review what the facts are.

Justice Breyer, on the importance and purpose of a warrant,  US v Wurie, oral argument, April 29, 2014.

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Come on. Enemies, who would utterly annihilate America, they who’d obviously have information on plots, to carry out Jihad. Oh, but you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen,” she said. “Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we’d baptize terrorists.

– Sarah Palin, bringing stupidity down another notch.   

Somehow I don’t think she really understands what the word baptism means.      

Source:  CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-palin-talks-waterboarding-guns-at-nra-convention/

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That is a freedom-destroying cocktail of patent falsity which taxes the credulity of the credulous

a mashup of Justice Scalia’s scathing dissents from Navarette v California, 2014, and Maryland v. King, 2013  

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what is missing here, is an awareness that law enforcement is a broad concept. It includes enforcement of the Bill of Rights, as well as enforcement of criminal statutes. Cases in which innocent travelers are stopped and impeded in their lawful activities do not come to court. They go on their way, too busy to bring a lawsuit against the officious agents who have detained them. If the Fourth Amendment is to be enforced, therefore, it must be by way of motions to suppress in cases like this.

Judge Richard Arnold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, People v Weaver, in dissent, 966 F.2d 391 (1992)

So often forgotten, but never were wiser words spoken

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We should not have to aggressively shove cameras in the faces of cops, to let them know an age of accountability is here.

David Brin (via azspot)

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In Texas, we value all life.

Texas Governor Perry, on the topic of abortion, on the eve of his state’s 500th execution (via luckyshirt)

Yup.

(via wateringgoodseeds)

Oh, that is funny.

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It is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere “primary” in its role.

Antonin Scalia, in full hypocritical dissent in the DOMA case, having done YESTERDAY exactly what he criticizes the Court for doing in the DOMA case today: overturning crucial components of the Voter Rights Act.  (via politicalprof)

This is dead-on in capturing Scalia!

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Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (via azspot)

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The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred against the government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,  Olmstead v United States, 1928

Let this soak in for a bit.  If there ever was a need for going back to fundamentals, it is now.  

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Speak peace. Speak peace now. Live peace. Live peace now. Be peace. Be peace now.

Derrick Weston,  http://derricklweston.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/advent-day-13-i-dont-want-to-write-about-peace-right-now/

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