Word: lerner
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...case hinges on whether use of a thermal imaging device to divine what goes on inside a house constitutes a search, and thus should itself have required a warrant showing probable cause. As his lawyer, Kenneth Lerner, put it in his brief, "Since we don't permit police to break into people's homes, should we permit them to use technology to accomplish the same thing? The public justifiably expects that the walls of our homes sanctify a zone of privacy against the government, and represent physical barriers that assure our privacy," Lerner wrote in his brief...
...explain why commentators have had such a hard time pinning Lieberman down ideologically. Within hours, Gore was said variously to be moving towards the center with his selection and to be placating his party's left-wing base. The senator's record has inspired very different interpretations. Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, groused that Lieberman was "bad for the Jews and bad for America" because of his conservative stances on school vouchers and Social Security and his hawkish enthusiasm for the military. And Lieberman is unquestionably conservative--for an ethnic Jew. Meanwhile, some Orthodox Jews wondered aloud...