Ignorance of the Law is Totally an Excuse
 

Since we were just discussing Bush's performance over the last eight years now seems like a good time for a reminder that his Supreme Court Justices will be using our Constitution for kindling for the entire rest of their functional lives.

The constitution became a bit of a moot point right after Bush ignored the Geneva Convention and established guantanamo. shortly after that he condoned the use of eavesdropping on conversations, these people are just his legacy and we'll have to just put up with them or find some way to get rid of them. Personally, this ruling worries me. It seems like these people are practicing the same errors that I always believed Bush made, which is short sighted solutions.

These judges may have meant well in allowing the police to keep a guy in custody when he obviously was performing illegal action, which I can understand. What I don't think they are seeing is the bigger picture. Due to their ruling on this any douchebag jerk that feels like raiding your house looking for evidence, whether there is any or not, can just cite this case and claim it was justified.

And this is coming from a jerk that raids people's houses for a living.....

Well you can't use this as precedent for just searching anyone because the original statement says that it was upheld because there was no deliberate violation.
Though you know, one could just fake a computer error or misheard phonecall.

It's still not a good sign, however, to erode away people's rights to free them from unwarranted harassment from cops.
And, obviously, constitutional rights. Cause once that starts who knows where they will stop.

You should see how many unreasonable searches we get over here per month. I think I'm the only one out of my group of friends who hasn't gone through the experience yet. One of them has actually been pulled through his car window twice because cops mistook his Ritalin for drugs.

Since we're on the topic, isn't Jose Serrano trying to get the 22nd amendment repealed so presidents can rule forever? I know Republicans tried this with Reagan back in the day, so it's not technically anything new.

Quick question: If a school searches your car and finds alcohol, and you get busted for it, can you sue for an illegal search, assuming it wasn't visible from the outside of the car? Or do they have some loophole where you automatically consent to anal probes by being alive and at the school?

Though I'm not disputing what you say, I have to say that Guantanamo is shutting down (Obama's making sure of that), Bush and his admin backed off the illegal search and seizures by getting court orders for such and there's always going to be someone that uses the law to their own personal sense of entitlement.

I'm pretty sure that by attending the school you automatically consent by law to anything that they deem necessary. So in short, you can sue, but it probably won't do any good.

Stopping after you've been caught and relentlessly attacked for doing something and respecting the law are not the same thing.

This trend is going on in Canada as well. There haven't been nearly as many cases making it to our supreme court, and sometimes our lower courts kick the offending cases out of their courtroom, but it's the fact that they're even being considered that makes me worry. I believe one of the latest ones was that the severity of the evidence found negated the fact that it was an illegal search.

Is it actually the people in the Supreme Court that are the problem or hasn't he just basically shown everyone hey, the laws don't mean shit, go have some fun?

And I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious (if extremely skeptical) that this problem will leave with Bush's justices.