Police don't have to knock

Radley Balko continues making very good sense in his new column for FoxNews on the web.  He's questioning the conservative court's decision to allow police to enter without first announcing themselves.  In his eyes, it chips away dangerously at our civil rights.

Oh, how refreshing to hear a conservative talk about civil rights.  For a moment there, I thought they had forgotten what those were, or simply didn't care any longer.

Balko writes: The most troubling thing about the Hudson case, then, is not that the Supreme Court’s most right-leaning justices are too conservative to uphold our civil liberties. It’s that when it comes to upholding our civil liberties, we can’t even count on them to be sufficiently conservative.

He's attacking the Scalia-penned opinion for using the "living, breathing Constitution" argument that conservatives so often harp on liberals about.

Interesting stuff.  When I agree with a conservative on civil liberties, and I haven't changed my opinions one bit, then you know the Bush police state has gone too far.

The link:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200495,00.html

 

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