Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Sliding Toward Dictatorship

The interrogation/detainee bill just gets worse and worse. Check it out:

Still another change would purport to eliminate the need to comply with the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches conducted in the United States:

[T]he original compromise said that evidence seized "outside the United States" could be admitted in court even if it had been obtained without a search warrant, a provision Republicans and Democrats agreed was necessary to deal with the unusual circumstances of seizing evidence on the battlefield. The bill introduced Monday dropped the words "outside the United States," which Democrats said meant that prosecutors could ignore American legal standards on search warrants within the country.

None of this crap is constitutional. Congress does not have the authority to give the President this power nor to make laws that are inconsistent with the Constitution. Will the Supreme Court ever see a case that would allow them to overturn this if it gets passed? Color me doubtful.

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