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...opening remarks, Senator Hatch raised the central question to come out of the hearing. "And what are we to think," he asked rhetorically, "when the leader of an unpopular church who is definitely hated and despised by large groups of people, may be thrown in prison after the court refuses to recognize what some believe to be his and his church's constitutional rights...
Civil libertarians are predictably gloomy about the trend in criminal-rights cases. Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar believes that the court is caving in to public fears of crime, especially drug-related offenses. Particularly unpopular is the exclusionary rule, which is often used to throw out drugs illegally seized by police, thus letting many dealers go free. "The Supreme Court has become the people's court," says Kamisar. "The Justices don't understand that the whole point is to protect minority interests." Not just criminals stand to lose, he adds. The court this term will consider under what...
...really walk and talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...
...others what is appropriate for public debate or what has already been so thrashed out that nobody needs to hear about it anymore. Further, he has no truck for the mistaken notion that somehow hecklers have an equivalent right to protection in their effort to drown out an unpopular speaker...
Both candidates are currently scrambling for the estimated 10% of the voting population that is undecided. Helms has wooed that group by playing up his ties to President Reagan and linking Hunt to Walter Mondale, who is unpopular in much of North Carolina. New voters may also play a key role. Some 77,000 blacks registered in the past year could be a plus for Hunt. Helms has unabashedly alienated blacks by boasting of his efforts against the creation of a national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Moral Majority says it has registered 70,000 white...