High Court Limits Searches of Suspect's Car After Arrest

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Can the police threaten you with arrest if you don't let them perform the search?

 

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Originally posted by: marincounty

Did you notice that three of the five votes were from the so-called liberal judges?
And the latest right-wingers on the court, Alito and Roberts voted against this.

Only a blind partisan would claim both sides contributed to this tremendously. This is largely a Republican deal. There are some Democrats that support this crap, but very few compared to Republicans.

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Reagan signs The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
Reagan signs an enormous omnibus drug bill, which appropriates $1.7 billion to fight the drug crisis. $97 million is allocated to build new prisons, $200 million for drug education and $241 million for treatment. The bill's most consequential action is the creation of mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses. Possession of at least one kilogram of heroin or five kilograms of cocaine is punishable by at least ten years in prison. In response to the crack epidemic, the sale of five grams of the drug leads to a mandatory five-year sentence. Mandatory minimums become increasingly criticized over the years for promoting significant racial disparities in the prison population, because of the differences in sentencing for crack vs. powder cocaine.

Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Movement begins.
Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign becomes a centerpiece of the Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign. The movement focuses on white, middle class children and is funded by corporate and private donations.

LOL you have a lot of cherry trees in your back yard? Cause you love to pick em! Guess you didn't bother to read my edit...from FRONTLINE....your same source...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...e/shows/snitch/primer/

In 1986, the Democrats in Congress saw a political opportunity to outflank Republicans by "getting tough on drugs" after basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose. In the 1984 election the Republicans had successfully accused Democrats of being soft on crime. The most important Democratic political leader, House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill, was from Boston, MA. The Boston Celtics had signed Bias. During the July 4 congressional recess, O'Neill's constituents were so consumed with anger and dismay about Bias' death, O'Neill realized how powerful an anti-drug campaign would be.
O'Neill knew that for Democrats to take credit for an anti-drug program in November elections, the bill had to get out of both Houses of Congress by early October. That required action on the House floor by early September, which meant that committees had to finish their work before the August recess. Since the idea was born in early July, the law-writing committees had less than a month to develop the ideas, to write the bills to carry out those ideas, and to get comments from the relevant government agencies and the public at large.

One idea was considered for the first time by the House Judiciary Committee four days before the recess began. It had tremendous political appeal as "tough on drugs." This was the creation of mandatory minimum sentences in drug cases. It was a type of penalty that had been removed from federal law in 1970 after extensive and careful consideration. But in 1986, no hearings were held on this idea. No experts on the relevant issues, no judges, no one from the Bureau of Prisons, or from any other office in the government, provided advice on the idea before it was rushed through the committee and into law. Only a few comments were received on an informal basis. After bouncing back and forth between the Democratic controlled House and the Republican controlled Senate as each party jockeyed for poitical advantage, The Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986 finally passed both houses a few weeks before the November elections.

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Personally I think one has to be either a fucking idiot or a fucking asshole (or both) to cling to these notions that "X is to blame for Y' in this country. We agree probably 100% on this issue, but you're so busy stroking your democrat donkey schlong you can't even stop to pause to consider that, can you? Must defend your precious democrats at all costs!

The brave democrats that are standing up are RIGHT on this issue, and I give them full props. But to act as if they had very little to do with the last 60 years of failed drug policy is complete bullshit. And just in case you aren't convinced yet, I leave you with one closing statistic.

9/11/1986 Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 392 - 16 (Record Vote No: 378).
9/30/1986 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2878 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 97-2.

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I can't imagine you'd have the stones to come back and post on this, but you've proven yourself a hardhead already so let's wait and see!

4/23 edit: I'll declare this /thread