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Magistrate judges should refuse to impose such restrictions and should let the law develop via judicial review expost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Seeking Help From Magistrate Judges 2010
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Magistrate judges should refuse to impose such restrictions and should let the law develop via judicial review expost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New Article, “Ex Ante Regulation of Computer Search and Seizure” 2010
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Magistrate judges should refuse to impose such restrictions and should let the law develop via judicial review expost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Seeking Help From Magistrate Judges 2010
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Magistrate judges should refuse to impose such restrictions and should let the law develop via judicial review expost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New Article, “Ex Ante Regulation of Computer Search and Seizure” 2010
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Making tax law a civil matter is also a way around a lot of protections in the constitution, and allows government to install fines ex-post facto as taxes can be imposed expost facto.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Flip Side of Trees’ Having Standing: 2009
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The big problem here, Nancy, is that under article 1, section 10 of the U.S. constitution, states, as you know, are forbidden to pass any, quote, "expost facto law," unquote.
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So far, based upon his consistent opposition to "free-trade" legislation, his opposition to the Iraq War, his opposition to the Patriot Act, his censure motion, and now his effort to block passage of a law exonerating Bush expost facto of his domestic spying crimes, it doesn't look like he is going to back down.
Sen. Feingold Stands Up...Again Michael Caddell 2006
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So far, based upon his consistent opposition to "free-trade" legislation, his opposition to the Iraq War, his opposition to the Patriot Act, his censure motion, and now his effort to block passage of a law exonerating Bush expost facto of his domestic spying crimes, it doesn't look like he is going to back down.
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I have crossposted on this over at expost.blogspot.com, and responded there also to your point about Bush v.
Balkinization 2005
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Admittedly this may not have been evident ex ante but certainly it was true expost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the American Revolution a Good Thing? 2004
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