Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, assaults persist, notably at Stanford University. One recent attack, in Stanford eyes, came from local police. Armed with a search warrant, cops raided the offices of the Stanford Daily seeking reporters' notes and photographs that supposedly implicated some participants in a demonstration at the university hospital. While strongly critical of the police, campus officials were equally aghast at a series of violent acts that seemed to be largely the work of nonstudents...
...have declared martial law this week in the District of Columbia. But why bother? The President could have more easily have announced a 24-hour curfew that would almost void every safeguard in the Bill of Rights. Such a momentous step requires no statutory authority and needs no legal warrant other than the President's good faith. It would be possible to challenge this catch-all power only if the government had proclaimed a discriminatory curfew for all persons except federal officials on their way to work. But why bother? The Administration could then simply note that there existed...
...outlawed any alternative overboard pumping systems. Yet the state has failed to provide, or require marinas to install, sufficient pump-out stations. After suspending enforcement for four years, New York decided to crack down this spring. Lawmen have been told that they may now board a boat without a warrant to ascertain whether it has an approved toilet. Operating a nonapproved toilet (or-as the law now reads-even being seasick over the side) is a misdemeanor that carries a $100 fine or 60 days in jail, or both...
...conduct of the meeting and were they given warning to cease at the time? Since the meeting occurred indoors in a university and was not a campaign rally, the Court, were it to hear such a case, might feel that the customs and usages of such an event would warrant a narrower definition of permissive conduct than applied in the Tunney case...
Serious Threat. Unfortunately, the law did not say whether the President's agents need warrants in such cases. The Supreme Court has not ruled on that subject-nor has it ever suggested that warrants are unnecessary in cases of domestic subversion. Yet Attorney General John Mitchell has authorized no-warrant wiretaps of domestic radicals who Mitchell is convinced pose a serious threat to national security. According to Mitchell, the Government's authority is implicit in the President's power to wage war and protect the country; he is the first Attorney General to make such a claim...