You know that donors to political parties and candidates are already public, right? (though not some forms of political groups)

“NASA has always built rockets vertically”

You can also make cold butter spreadable by hitting it, which is a fun way to start the day.

Based on the severity of the fire it’s likely she’d need a new wing and a new engine. It’s doable, but for a nine year old aircraft probably not financially viable.

All of this law is new, so I don’t think there’s any direct precedent on point. But those two situations do seem very different in terms of how invasive the investigation is, a publicly viewable license plate vs. removing a SIM card, inserting it into another computer, and then reading at least some of its contents.

As Justice Brennan used to say, the most important fact of constitutional law is that it takes five votes to get a majority on the Supreme Court.

If there is a missing kidnapping victim, that’s kind of the casebook example of an exigent circumstance. But otherwise, the problem is trying to figure out the cell phone’s number without using the phone. If there was something like a license plate number or VIN number in plain view that would be fine. I don’t think a…

Riley v. US (cell phone search case) explicitly drew the line between warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest and warrantless searches of other types of containers with information in them, like wallets or briefcases. But to fully answer your question, you’d need to know where this crime scene was. In…

Riley v. US explicitly distinguishes between the search of a wallet and the search of a cell phone. Prior cases allowed police to search through a wallet incident to arrest, and the government made the case that searching through a cell phone’s contents are the same. The Supreme Court rejected that (unanimously),…

Whether the police can search is not dependent on whether something is evidence. What matters is who is asserting a violation of their constitutional rights, and whether there has been an unreasonable warrantless search.

That’s not how the Fourth Amendment works at all. You have a constitutional right to not have your property be subject to an unreasonable warrantless search. The reasonableness of the search depends on whether you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Do you have that in fibers or other physical evidence at a…

Yes, but the problem is with DC Water and DDOT. If they raised the curb and added more drains the problem would go away. For reference here’s the entrance: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.93635…

As much as I hate Metro, this has nothing to do with them. I live close to here and the problem was that the street flooded. There’s poor street drainage (and a low curb) right by that Metro entrance, and we had an ungodly amount of rain in a very short time period. So this (one thing) actually can’t be blamed on…

Plaintiff’s lawyers in this country generally work on contingency, which acts as a check against frivolous lawsuits.

“Did who paid the legal bills affect the ruling ?”

Ah, I love internet knowledge about free speech.

This isn’t about a “disagreement,” it’s about the power of the rich and the content distributors they attach themselves to using their power to attack those they disagree with. Thiel, who has never been obscure, claims to support free speech while secretly engaging in champerty against journalists and calling it…

Apollo was also ‘flown’ into the atmosphere. Its reentry profile resembled a stone skipping across the water to better manage heating from the high speed of trans-lunar speed.

X-15 Pilot Neil Armstrong might disagree.

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