“Settled law†is a term that liberal jurists reserve mostly for their own use, a seal of finality best left for them to fix on any principle. Ages of precedents are casually disregarded to obtain precedents to their liking, but from that moment on stare decisis is everything, the new doctrine enshrined in law and never again to be doubted. Somehow, though, the doubts keep coming, and most recently centered on the Supreme Court case of Hudson v. Michigan and the settled matter of the exclusionary rule. Acting on a warrant, Detroit police in 1998 arrived at the door of...