New items for May 11, 2010: Google Reader: The Bogus Constitutional Arguments of Arizona’s Ultra-Restrictionists

Supreme Court rules that police can ad lib Miranda warnings Police officers are not required to use exact, cookie-cutter phrasing while advising criminal suspects of their right to have a lawyer present with them throughout a police interrogation, the US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. I get it, the supreme court isn’t there to dictate protocol. [...]