Wednesday April 23, 2008

ADDED (7:30): Trumping all that is a mind-blowingly horrible ruling from the Supreme Court today:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.

What?? And it was unanimous, no less. This blows a hole in the exclusionary clause, as I noted here.

Clinton wins Pennsylvania by 10, so we’re stuck with playing out the string on the primaries until June 3. In other news, there’s a pair of great foreign policy articles today here and here … and quality web comics today here and here. And Rachel writes quite eloquently, as usual, here.

And last, in legal news, it seems that the feds are going to persist in retrying the Liberty City Six in what amounts to a thoughtcrime trial. Meanwhile, the “Rutgers Three” — a triplet of individuals that were seemingly randomly chosen by police and the DA from the dozens of anti-war demonstrators that closed the Route 18 freeway in New Brunswick — have been indicted for disorderly conduct.