US TX: Editorial: Court's GPS Ruling Was Correct but Incomplete

1/30/2012

COURT'S GPS RULING WAS CORRECT BUT INCOMPLETE

Some Supreme Court decisions hit like bombs, taking casualties and creating vibrations for years. Citizens United was one; the expected ruling this year on the Obama administration's health care reform should be another.

Others creep past on cat's paws, content to curl up and wait for someone to come by and rub their belly.

Last week's U.S. vs. Jones decision is a creeper. While billed as the most important Fourth Amendment test in a decade, it mostly came and went fairly quietly, with legal analysts left to sort out what happened and what it meant.

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