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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I suppose next you'll be saying that accused criminals have forfeited the protections of the Bill of Rights by virtue of their transgressions?
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I believe it was Reagan's Attorney General Ed Meese who suggested that the police only investigate the guilty, obviating the need for due process protections.*
* It took me a while to find it, but it's actually: "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
I also came across this gem: "A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore."
