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June 27, 2006
Knock Knock Knocking on Troubles Door
From Cathy Young at Reason.com:
"Yet there is a major problem with Scalia's reasoning. He argues that while 50 years ago abusive police tactics were common and few remedies were available, the situation today is markedly different: Police forces are much more respectful of citizens' rights, and there are far more recourses to civil rights litigation. Yet Reason's web editor Tim Cavanaugh has noted an opposite trend toward increasingly militarized police forces and military-style raids—particularly in drug cases. In Mississippi, a man named Cory Maye now sits on death row for shooting a police officer whom he mistook for an intruder during a no-knock nighttime raid on his house, in search of drugs on what was apparently a false tip."
This ruling by SCOTUS (Hudson v. Michigan) proves that to some extent elections do matter. Without Bush's two SCOTUS picks this ruling wouldn't have come down this way. Hmm..
Posted by Ali Massoud at June 27, 2006 12:54 PM
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