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NPR: "FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court's GPS Ruling"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36

NPR: FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court's GPS Ruling by Carrie Johnson:

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting a search warrant. It seemed like another instance in a long line of cases that test the balance between personal privacy and the needs of law enforcement.

But the decision in U.S. v. Jones set off alarm bells inside the FBI, where officials are trying to figure out whether they need to change the way they do business.

Before the Supreme Court ruling in late January, the FBI had about 3,000 GPS tracking devices in the field.

See also BLT: Prosecutors Gear Up For GPS Drug Case, Sans Tracking Data:

With the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark warrantless surveillance case back in Washington federal district court, prosecutors said they are gearing up for a legal fight over the availability of certain pieces of evidence.

The high court in January ruled for a Washington nightclub owner named Antoine Jones. Prosecutors have accused him of running a cocaine trafficking ring in the Washington metropolitan area.

College degree, religious faith help marriages 'survive' to 20th year

America's marriage culture may be changing, but two statistics look about the same as they did 30 years ago:

• By the time women reach age 40, about eight in 10 will have married for the first time, just as they did in the 1980s.

• And 20 years later, ...

Sanford city panel votes 'no confidence' in police chief

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Sanford city commissioners have voted "no confidence" in their police chief over the handling of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain.

The commission voted 3-2 Wednesday night against Chief Bill Lee Jr.

Commissioner Mark McCarty said Lee, who was ...

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Analysis: The GOP race is now lining up for Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Obama, GOP vie for upper hand on energy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
MALJAMAR, N.M. (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

Obama, GOP vie for upper hand on energy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 22:36
MALJAMAR, N.M. (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

Was Florida shooter a vigilante or diligent neighbor?

SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman once took criminal justice classes at the community college and was practically a one-man neighborhood watch in his gated part of town, calling police close to 50 times over the past eight years to report such things as slow-driving vehicles, strangers loitering in the neighborhood ...

Habits vs. G-strings: Nuns clash with strip club site next door

On one side of the fence are women in habits and wimples who have taken vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

On the other side of that fence, if a developer gets his way, will be women in G-strings in the business of nudity, dollars and prurience.

The scene for ...

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