Sanctuary for crime?
April 1st, 2008 by Sonny
As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied - washingtonpost.com
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will not review a lower court’s decision that an FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson’s congressional office violated the Constitution, a ruling that federal prosecutors had said could make lawmakers’ offices a “sanctuary for crime.”
And how is this different? Seems to me that Congress has been a sanctuary for crime for decades. All kidding aside this upholds the status quo, where the executive branch isn’t allowed to go on fishing expeditions in Congressional offices. It allows the $90K found wrapped in foil in Jefferson’s freezer to be admitted into evidence. (Doesn’t everyone do that?) It doesn’t allow a free for all search of Congressional offices. This case was the first time the FBI attempted that and I think courts decided it correctly.
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