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'A woman who. ...': Romney's stories court females

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney's courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie's casting call....

On Indefinite Detention: The Tyranny Continues

TruthNews.US - News - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
Ron Paul | The bad news from last week's passage of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act is that Americans can still be arrested on US soil and detained indefinitely without trial.

There's no contradiction; I'm black and gay

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
LZ Granderson says the storyline that the black and gay communities are separate is nonsense. Gays have always been a big part of black culture.
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Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time....

2012 Fiscal Summit

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
CNN's Erin Burnett honors an older generation of leaders she met at this year's fiscal summit.
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Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96

CHICAGO — Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

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Secret Central Bank Aid Props Up Greek Banks

TruthNews.US - News - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
CNBC | There has been no official announcement. No terms or conditions have been disclosed. But Greece’s banking system is being propped up-- again.

Obama to push clean energy technologies in Iowa

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anxious to show voters he's working to create jobs, President Barack Obama is putting tax credits to boost clean energy in the spotlight this week as he heads to the political battleground state of Iowa....

Obama to push clean energy technologies in Iowa

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anxious to show voters he's working to create jobs, President Barack Obama is putting tax credits to boost clean energy in the spotlight this week as he heads to the political battleground state of Iowa....

Obama to push clean energy technologies in Iowa

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anxious to show voters he's working to create jobs, President Barack Obama is putting tax credits to boost clean energy in the spotlight this week as he heads to the political battleground state of Iowa....

9/11 ‘truther’ leading Egyptian presidential race

TruthNews.US - News - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20
Washington Times | An Islamist who believes that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an American conspiracy is the front-runner in Egypt’s presidential race.

New law review article: "Is the Exclusionary Rule Dead?"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Tue, 2025-04-29 18:20

Craig M. Bradley, Is the Exclusionary Rule Dead? 103 J. Crim. L & Criminology 1 (2012):

In three recent decisions, Hudson v. Michigan, Herring v. United States, and last Term’s Davis v. United States, the Supreme Court has indicated a desire to severely restrict the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule. A majority of the Justices wants to limit its application to cases where the police have violated the Fourth Amendment purposely, knowingly, or recklessly, but not where they have engaged in “simple, isolated negligence” or where negligence is “attenuated” from the discovery of the evidence. They have further suggested that evidence should not be excluded where the police have behaved as reasonable policemen, using the approach from United States v. Leon.

The Court’s new approach, based on the culpability of the police, is subjective, yet the Court insists that it does not probe the police’s mind. The new approach seems to reject negligence as the basis of exclusion, yet Leon is a negligence-based approach. The new approach assumes that “reckless” behavior can be deterred more readily than negligent behavior, but that is not obvious.

This Article reviews Hudson, Herring, and Davis, as well as the court of appeals cases that have applied Herring. It suggests that the Supreme Court has not eliminated the exclusionary rule and argues that the rule should still be applied in cases of “substantial” as opposed to “simple isolated” negligence—that is, when negligence has substantially interfered with a suspect’s privacy rights, such as through an illegal arrest or an illegal search of his car or house. It notes that none of the three cases decided by the Court involved such a substantial intrusion. It concludes, through a careful reading of the three cases, as well as examination of successful defense appeals in the courts of appeals, that the exclusionary rule, though limited, is neither dead nor unacceptably constrained.

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