I'm not usually a Rodney Balko fan, but his latest article is a sober assessment of the erosion of civil liberties we tolerate in order to conduct the War on Drugs™.
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Mr. T
January 29, 2005 at 2:55AM
This ruling makes sense given the Court’s holdings for the past few decades over car searches. Even when it involves homes, I believe the cops are allowed to use things like electricity bills in consideration of probable cause to conduct home searches. Seem to be 3 things at issue here..1) the rehnquist court has been heading this way ever since its coming of age as a pro-expansion of police power court in the wake of the burger era; 2) the policy choice of keeping drugs illegal; and 3) society’s response (or lack of response) to government action.
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See what your friends and neighbors have to say about this.
This ruling makes sense given the Court’s holdings for the past few decades over car searches. Even when it involves homes, I believe the cops are allowed to use things like electricity bills in consideration of probable cause to conduct home searches. Seem to be 3 things at issue here..1) the rehnquist court has been heading this way ever since its coming of age as a pro-expansion of police power court in the wake of the burger era; 2) the policy choice of keeping drugs illegal; and 3) society’s response (or lack of response) to government action.
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