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In the era of the Warren Court, in the nineteen-sixties, the concept of judicial restraint was largely associated with the political right—with resisting judicial interference in the governance of sovereign states. In recent years, though, the political right has tried to use the courts to push its own agenda. If a newly constituted Court establishes an abiding commitment to judicial restraint, the right as well as the left is likely to suffer disappointments. Two years ago, in his Senate testimony, Roberts said, “My clients and their positions are liberal and conservative across the board.” He was speaking, of course, about his work as an advocate, not his future as a final arbiter of the nation’s laws.
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Last month, though, the American Library Association found at least 200 instances since late 2001 in which police targeted libraries in a hunt for information.
In one case, the names of people checking out books on Osama bin Laden were requested.
Because Section 215 makes it illegal for anyone involved in a search to make it public, there was no way the ALA study could determine if the actions were Patriot Act-approved.
The responses were anonymous to protect librarians.
sounds like a power shift at todays wh press breifing
My own opinion, expressed in this post last March, was that both the FCC and Congress overplayed their cards in 2004, inviting constitutional challenges they might have lost (in the FCC's case) and tacking on extra censorship baggage which might have doomed the new legislation (in the case of Congress).
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