Obama's Defense of Strip Searching for Traffic Violations (tags)
The US Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that guards can strip search and visually inspect the body cavities of people arrested for minor offenses who are admitted into a jail’s general population is based largely on arguments contained in the amicus curiae “friend of the court” brief filed in the case on behalf of the Obama administration.
The Importance of the Skeptical Jury (tags)
The light sentence received by Ed Rosenthal still leaves him a felon. It is to be hoped that future federal marijuana trial jurors will better understand their powers and responsibilities.