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... a reasonable expectation of privacy in contraband. And he said this was really no different here. But he ran into trouble across the bench from justices. The home, it appears, is different in the eyes of the court. Justice Ginsburg, for example, said, under your theory of the case, couldn ...
... of sex discrimination. Under this more searching examination, the state must identify an important objective and show that the law helps accomplish it. If the justices opt for heightened scrutiny, they could return the case to the appeals court to apply it. Gender-affirming care for youth is supported by ...
... is going to be laid upon that family. William Brangham: The local sheriff's office released this body camera footage yesterday, which shows two deputies searching outside Massey's property for the suspected prowler. Sean Grayson, Former Sangamon County, Illinois, Police Deputy: So what did you hear? Sonya Massey, Killed ...
... device that replicates someone's signature. Both Democratic and Republican presidents have used autopens, including Mr. Trump, though he says he's used it only for unimportant papers. A Justice Department legal opinion dating back decades authorized its use. President Trump had previously ordered an investigation into his predecessor's ...
... time the advice was changed, it was too late for many on the upper floors to escape. London Fire Brigade came in for further criticism for a “chronic lack of effective management and leadership," poor training in high-rise fires and outdated communications equipment. The Grenfell tragedy prompted soul-searching ...
... more limited requirement, mandating a court order for when the FBI wants to conduct queries on Americans to find evidence of a crime but not for when the FBI is searching the intelligence database for foreign intelligence information. Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who said he had not yet ...
... moments, Stephanie, since summer of last year, starting with the fact that the former president himself was the person that announced that the FBI was searching his home, was searching his Mar a Lago home for these classified documents. We learned that first from the former president and all along ...
... how much the government paid to do it. Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon for $4.8 million. The three departments accounted for more than ...
... unit and faces desertion and misbehavior charges. Bergdahl was captured and held by the Taliban and its allies for five years. Two soldiers who went searching were seriously wounded. Obama exchanged Bergdahl in 2014 for five Taliban prisoners. Because of his military involvement, both the Justice Department and Defense Department ...
... publicized ones that challenge the massive collection without warrants of telephone records by the National Security Agency. Though the details and scale are far different - searching a single phone for evidence that could send someone to jail versus gathering huge amounts of data, almost all of which will never be ...
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