Utah
Water Over the Dam
Yankee, Stay Home
No Fantasy Island
Search and Seize
The Senate Judiciary Committee this week debated a bill that would abolish the exclusionary rule, which bars illegally seized evidence from criminal cases. Instead, the bill would let victims of unreasonable searches sue the government for tort damages. "This hearing is an interesting and worthwhile academic exercise," intoned Senator Joseph Biden, who proceeded to browbeat the Republican's star witness, Akhil Amar of Yale Law School. Amar, a liberal Democrat, wrote an article in 1994 that criticized the exclusionary rule as a betrayal of the original understanding of the Constitution. READ MORE >>
Mormon on the Mount
Brigham Young: American Moses By Leonard J. Arrington (Knopf, 522 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
Joseph Smith: The First Mormon
Joseph Smith: The First Mormon By Donna Hill (Doubleday, $12.50) READ MORE >>
