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Promoting Public Safety

May 3, 2005

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Is the criminal justice system broken? And if the answer is yes, how do we fix it?
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A Piecemeal Federalism

May 3, 2005

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The recent Supreme Court term has ended with a flurry of decisions, some of which can only be characterized, charitably, as "troubling." Others reaffirmed long-standing constitutional principles or–as in the internet indecency case– applied those…
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Seat Belts & Drug Stops

July 8, 1999

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Within the past week, courts have handed down two opinions which seem contradictory: the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law allowing police to stop and ticket drivers for failing to buckle up, while the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against drug interdiction checkpoints. I think both decisions were legally correct.
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