A Chief Justice for the State: The Roberts Record on Search & Seize

Scott Henson compiles a fine takedown on the nominee for Chief Justice,
who bats 1,000 when it comes to the government’s right to crash your
party. Chew on your Fourth Amendment with your Grits for
Breakfast here.

It will be interesting to watch Washington in the next few weeks.
If the Democrats continue to play lapdog to the President, what will
they be risking? Or to put it another way, is the Deaniac wing
anything more than a mouthpiece of dissent?

For progressive activists, it would be difficult to imagine a more
auspicious moment to pull together something more than opposition
politics. Suddenly, people may be in a mood to listen to truly
refreshing alternatives. Can anyone remember what they are?–gm