Supreme Court rules against police in questioning case

From the AP via the Detriot Free Press (via Eschaton):

The Supreme Court reaffirmed Monday that police must tell indicted people of their rights before starting interrogations.

Justices ruled 9-0 in favor of a Nebraska man who claimed he was tricked into talking to officers who came to his house to arrest him on drug charges.

The decision relieved civil liberties groups, which worried that the court was poised to roll back some of the protections in its landmark 1966 Miranda ruling which led to the familiar refrain beginning ``You have the right to remain silent.''

So...are they trying to make up for Bush v Gore, or what? The Supreme Court has been rolling back important civil liberties since the Reagan administration: first, the war on drugs, and, now, the war on terrorism have been huge justifications for an increasingly right wing court to attack and destroy freedoms that generations of Americans have come to take for granted. This ruling, seen in that context, is truly weird. Welcome, but weird.

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