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...have noted disapprovingly this Court's tendency to rule against citizens seeking extended Fourth Amendment protections while supporting, on the other hand, attempts by police forces to detain suspects or search cars. It's a trend that alarms some constitutional scholars - but others, like Boston College law professor Robert Bloom, see Tuesday's ruling as just another unpredictable decision from an increasingly unpredictable Court...
...Until a few years ago, I might have agreed with the theory of a Court bent on restricting Fourth Amendment rights," Bloom told TIME.com Tuesday. "But over the last couple of years, there have been some inconsistencies in this Court's rulings on search-and-seizure cases. And so it's hard to draw any conclusions about this Court's attitude toward Fourth Amendment protections. In this case, they ruled the arrest was reasonable, that the police had probable cause to pull the car over...
...noteworthy characteristic of Tuesday's ruling struck Bloom immediately. "What's particularly interesting about today's decision is that it was written by David Souter, one of the Justices who usually rules in favor of individual rights," says Bloom. Souter's customary cohorts, Justices Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer, were joined by Justice O'Connor in the dissent...
...yoga can be fun or be made fun of; it can help you look marvelous or feel marvelous. These aspects are not insignificant. They demonstrate the roots yoga has dug into America's cultural soil--deep enough for open-minded researchers to consider how it might bloom into a therapy to treat or prevent disease...
Admittedly, not all of these problems are new and some of them seem legitimately unavoidable. Certain lines of Shakespeare’s are dead and gone forever. According to Harold Bloom, there were lines from the Ur-Hamlet, the play (probably by Thomas Kyd) on which Shakespeare’s Hamlet was most immediately based, which remained a source of mockery for years in the world of Elizabethan theatrics due to their utter ridiculousness. (The ghosts overemphatic and rather simple cry of “Hamlet, revenge!” was among the most common targets.) Now, what Shakespeare undid...