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Finally, the final paragraph of an otherwise balanced, well-written opinion is unnecessarily inflammatory. “The Supreme Court has taken a dangerous decision by allowing evidence obtained illegally to be used in a trial. For a democracy to flourish, no one can be above the law.” By providing exceptions to the exclusionary rule, the court is holding that evidence that fits into this exception is not illegal. The court says nothing of allowing illegal evidence to be presented at trial and instead rules on the existence of exceptions to the exclusionary rule. By writing that...
...nature of the yet-to-be-finalized compromise: the group might tolerate some form of education funding for cash-strapped states as long as it doesn't create a new permanent mandate. "The challenge is to bring enough Republicans over to make it bipartisan, given some differences of opinion about education being in the bill," Nelson said. "But what we would hope is that both the Democrats and the Republicans decide that it is the best interest of the country to develop a consensus where everybody gives and everybody takes some...
...death, a weak elected government and a recalcitrant military have failed to check the easy movement of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in and out of Afghanistan. That has forced the U.S. military to launch targeted missile strikes on Pakistani soil, a policy that has enraged local public opinion...
Beyond his policy expertise, Daschle spent 18 years in the U.S. Senate, including 10 as Democratic leader, learning how to move critical legislation. The Clinton health-care effort was, in the opinion of most analysts, crippled by poor relations with Congress, and someone with experience as a leader in the Senate would be ideally suited to avoid that problem. Furthermore, Daschle was in the Senate Democratic leadership and on the critical Finance Committee during the 1994 health-care battle, putting him in an ideal position to learn the lessons of that failure...
After years of exploration, Odyssey located the wreckage about 62 miles (100 km) from the site where public opinion has long held that the Victory went down. That location, according to Stemm, helps clarify why the ship sank. "If it had run aground on the Casquets [an outcropping of rocks in the Channel], as historians have believed for over 250 years," he says, "it would have been because of a navigation error because the Casquets were far south of where the ship should have been. Since it obviously foundered in deep water, with a very experienced crew - it was almost...