Pubdate: Sun, 08 Jul 2001
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
Copyright: 2001 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Contact:  http://www.mapinc.org/media/408
Website: http://www.seattle-pi.com/
Author: Kirk Muse

CONSERVATIVES CONSERVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS

Kudos to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for your editorial "A thin 
win for right of privacy" (Monday). I was pleasantly surprised to 
learn the U. S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence 
Thomas voted to uphold the Fourth Amendment rights. It seems that up 
until now, there wasn't a single right that these two justices would 
not be willing to trample in the name of the war on drugs.

It's good to see conservative judges actually conserving the Bill of Rights.

It was with great disappointment to learn that Justices John Paul 
Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and William Rehnquist 
seem to feel that the Fourth Amendment doesn't really mean what it 
says.

Kirk Muse
Vancouver
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