[Bush Revolution]

Hummmmmm...

[Shady]

Your Dear Leader needs this omnipotence. No soup for you, Conservative Swine. Guilty. To the Camp!

[Las Vegas Ron]

Until he overturns the 5th Amendment, he can KMA.

Is he looking to overturn Miranda too?

[trumandogz]

Burning the Bill of Rights one Amendment at a time.

[bill1952]

Interesting.

This gains him no political points at all, and no real power either.
Anyone who doesn't know the 5th amendment & also thinks for some weird reason that he HAS to talk to the cops after being arrested is probably a liberal ipso facto.

[Snickering Hound]

The Constitution is counter-revolutionary.

[scratcher]

The Justice Department, in a brief signed by Elena Kagan, the solicitor general, said the 1986 decision “serves no real purpose” and offers only “meagre benefits”.

Then why end it? Is it somehow bothering Mr Obama?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Step 1 of eliminating liberty. The civilian police force will then have an unnecessary burden removed.

Hussein’s world.

[rrrod]

not a peep from RATS on this because all registerd Democrats love State power. They will cheer at mobs publically lynching any free thinkers.

[2nd amendment mama]

Original article already posted here

[popdonnelly]

This makes absolutely no sense at all. I’m no ACLU type, but the right to counsel is in the Constitution for good reason.

[ChicagahAl]

“serves no real purpose”

Just like the Democrat Party. Democrats exist only to suck the blood from living organisms.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

She and Napolitano, a match made in Heaven. Together, 450+ lbs. of fun in the off hours.

[TaxRelief]

He wants no witnesses to the interrogation torture, I suppose.

[Smedley]

The effort to sweep aside the 23-year-old Michigan vs Jackson ruling is one of several moves by the new government to have dismayed civil rights groups.

Not to worry, the "civil rights" leadership will be humping Obama's legs (again) by the end of the week

[Beagle8U]

“The Obama administration has argued for the end of the Michigan v Jackson ruling that requires police to provide an attorney for a suspect once one has been requested. They argue that the benefits are “meagre,” as the Telegraph puts it:”

OK, Hypothetical...

Joe blow gets pulled over for 37 in a 35 mph zone.

Joe has had a couple beers but did nothing wrong except 2mph over the limit.

Barney Fife smells the beer and makes poor Joe blow in his machine.

Barney know that the state county makes a bundle off DUI arrests.

Joe is arrested, but demands an attorney before he does anything more.

Barney's road-side breath sniffer isn't accurate enough to stand up in court, and without Joe's attorney present they can't force him to blow in the calibrated legal machine at the police station.

2 hours later a lawyer shows up at the jail and Joe blows .03.

Perfectly legal in every state...Joe walks free.

Tell me again how this is trivial and no big deal to Joe?

[GladesGuru]

Surprise, surprise, surprise - Obama isn’t really black at heart after all.

Lookin’ more and more each day as if he is just the Saul Alinksy commie and Bill Davis acolyte which those Republican Reptiles said he was.

[SeaHawkFan]

Here is the petition for cert with the USSC.

http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/07-1529_Petitioner.pdf

This guy was railroaded, but if the CIA treated a terrorist in this manner, he’d lose his job and may get prosecuted.

[Gaffer]

Let's see....black urban policemen, black urban DAs, black falsely accused 'perpetrators'........not a problem here -- they won't be charged. On the other hand, white urban 'suspect', black urban policement, black DAs......."cracker don't need no mouthpiece"......

Try that here where I live Obama.

[NinoFan]

I think people need to read up on this case before freaking out. The administration is right on this and the Bush administration would’ve supported the same stance. Overruling Jackson will not take away the right to counsel.

[Red Steel]

Obama does call the Bill of Rights as “anti-Constitutional rights”.