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Originally posted by Spanky
I don't know where we are on this topic, but the exclusionary rules was the lamest idea ever. Pure stupidity. One of the worst moves the Supreme Court ever made.
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While I agree that it's a bizarre decision in a lot of ways, I think the court forced itself into a corner by eliminating other ways of redressing constitutional violations. What good is a constitutional prohibition on an invasion of privacy (an improper search and seizure, for example) without some penalty for a violation of that right? If the court won't mess with sovereign immunity, then the government can't really be held accountable to the constitution, can it? And what good is a constitution that a Government can ignore?
So they latched on to the only remedy left.
But to fix the problem, I think we have to fix sovereign immunity.
(Sorry if this is repetitive, but I think the train of thought had gotten buried before).
