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I guess we can't have nice things. You know, little things... like adherence to the Fourth Amendment. In Wisconsin, the state's top court says [PDF] cops don't need to worry too much about suppressed evidence if there's another way to acquire it. (via Courthouse News Service) Daniel Van Linn was convicted of driving under the…

A long report by Human Rights Watch delves into the secretive world behind the evidence given in criminal cases. Multiple law...

The NSA has never taken its evidentiary obligations seriously. The agency is supposed to inform the court and defendants if...

Please? thats the first slide again. there we go. so the first slide were looking at is the small business optimism. and this is basically par parallel construction, youre going to see that each of the slides we go through is going to look a lot like this. and so the blue part to the left of the slide is what happened from the 2012 election through the 2016 election. and the dotted blue line is the trend that president trump inherited from the previous president and the red line is what actually...

>> yeah, i think he knows by name the russian hackers that were involved in hacking dnc, in giving e-mails to wikileaks. and i think that theyre going to get indicted. i dont see how a prosecutor knows that and doesnt acts on it. if theyre government hackers, its going to require approval from the state department and department of justice. but i think thats going to happen. and this all segues into the point i keep trying to make, which is mueller knows classified top secret sensitive informati...

Purposes, whatever means they used to communicate, those two al qaeda guys, that may have been a very valuable source of information for the united states, valuable enough to have produced this threat warning and to have down -- shut down all these embassies. but now, that source of information has been disclosed to the people who were using it and so as an information source, as an intelligence source because of this leak, it is gone. and, of course, the other side of this it was all political....

Is it clear that this has to be stuff that was targeting foreign communications and people in other countries in the first place and the nsa stumbled upon it by accident? >> well, from the people that weve spoken with, that appears to be the case. you can never tell, agents tell us theres no way you can ever truly know if youre listening to an intercept or an e-mail whether the persons an american citizen. sometimes there isnt time. there isnt enough information to know. so theres really necessa...

Out this statement, quote, the governor finally met with us but provided no real leadership. rather than calling for a special session of the state legislature, hes calling for a day of prayer to end racial profiling. faith without works is not justice. and so they stayed for weeks until now there has been a breakthrough. the republican speaker of the house in florida has announced that when the legislature is back in session, there will be a hearing to review the states stand your ground law. q...