Freedom Means Being Left Alone “[T]he right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized [people].” –Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States When can police pat you down? Poke behind your ceiling tiles? Peek in your bedroom windows? The Constitutional Right to Be Left Alone: Your right […]
COPS and ROBBERS
The Star Tribune recently ran a piece asking whether Minnesota inmates have a right to receive a new, effective, but expensive, hepatitis treatment. Although I prepared myself to read the comments, I was, nevertheless, taken aback when I did. They went like this: “Inmates should not get medication or subsequent transplants. They should lose those […]