Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:54:03 PM
Apologies to Glenn Reynolds,
but they said if I voted for a Republican in 2008, I’d wind up with an
autocratic administration determined to wipe out civil rights — and they were right! 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.
Can you imagine what the outcry over this would have been had President
John McCain, or for that matter President George W. Bush, had tried
this? Newspapers around the nation would have decried his assault on
civil liberties. PFAW and the ACLU would have staged rallies in every
American city, and they would have called Bush, McCain, or any other
Republican a fascist for denying legal counsel to people under police
questioning. We’d have an endless line of appearances on television
news programs from people who got coerced into false confessions after
having been denied counsel.