Word: kamisar
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...former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep in touch with Powell's clerk" to make sure the emerging reasoning is acceptable to his colleague.--Brennan will even sacrifice some of his own views if necessary. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "He doesn't want to be 100% principled and lose by one vote...
...there are whole areas where the expectation of privacy has been held essentially null and void, such as cars. "Fourth Amendment protection of autos has been largely eroded," said Yale Kamisar, law professor at the University of Michigan. Even passengers' purses can be searched without a warrant (although it's less clear whether a passenger's person can be, showing how tricky it is to thread this needle). And Kamisar argues that in general, "the whole trend has been the other way, toward saying that police surveillance is not a search." Giving a Charmin-like squeeze to a bus passenger...