[108289] in Cypherpunks
Re: Inferno: CDR: Miranda? We don't need no stinkin' Miranda! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederick Burroughs)
Thu Feb 11 08:20:47 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:00:47 -0500
From: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Reply-To: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
Firebeard wrote:
> >>>>> Jim Choate writes:
>
> JC> ----- Forwarded message from Frederick Burroughs -----
>
> JC> The surprise is that Congress has passed a law overruling the
> JC> Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda decision, in 1968!
>
> While I hope that the law in question is struck down, I think
> that the opinion of the dissenting judge is just as frightening, if
> not more. When the executive branch gets to pick and choose which
> laws to enforce, it gets to pick and choose who to enforce laws
> against, and it seems to me that that doesn't quite go along with that
> antiquidated notion of equal protection under the law.
I suspect the DOJ has a file/cabinet/room/floor/wing/building/bureau... filled with
laws passed, unenforced, constitutionally untested, awaiting an amiably stacked
Supreme Court.
