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Monthly Archives: July 2008

13yo Honor Student Gets Strip-searched for Drugs

14-Jul-08

Our gov’t actually upholding the 4th amendment?
This common sense requirement allows parents to rest assured that their children will not be stripped and searched without their knowledge or participation for allegedly giving another student the equivalent of two Advils.
REDDING V SAFFORD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Crazy that the ruling wasn’t unanimous, but 6-5. I can’t believe [...]

So Much for the 4th Amendment

10-Jul-08

On Wednesday the Senate approved a bill that expands the government’s wiretapping powers and also grants retroactive immunity to the telecoms that assisted with the illegal wiretapping done on suspected terrorists in America without a warrant after 9/11.
There is nothing to fear in the bill, said Senator Christopher S. Bond, the Missouri Republican who was [...]