WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant's lawyer being present.

By a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority overruled a 23-year-old Supreme Court decision that barred the police from initiating questioning after a defendant asserted the right to an attorney at an arraignment or similar proceeding.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090526/ts_nm/us_usa_police_interrogation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant's lawyer being present.

By a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority overruled a 23-year-old Supreme Court decision that barred the police from initiating questioning after a defendant asserted the right to an attorney at an arraignment or similar proceeding.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090526/ts_nm/us_usa_police_interrogation

70% of US Latinos are catholic (from the Washington Post).....and we all know how liberal the catholic church is.

These are probably the same people that assumed Obama would be liberal because he is half black.

We already have 5 Supreme Court justices who are catholic, she would be the 6th.

This is hardly representative of the population as a whole (which is the excuse her supporters use......she should be confirmed because there is only 1 woman on the bench).

"As a federal appeals court judge in 2002, she (Sotomayor) ruled against an abortion rights group that had challenged a government policy prohibiting foreign organizations receiving U.S. funds from performing or supporting abortions." MSNBC

Oh you mean how best to take away our constitutional rights...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant's lawyer being present.

By a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority overruled a 23-year-old Supreme Court decision that barred the police from initiating questioning after a defendant asserted the right to an attorney at an arraignment or similar proceeding.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090526/ts_nm/us_usa_police_interrogation

And you can thank Obama who actively campaigned the Supreme Court for this verdict.

thereby ensuring that our equal rights stay many years away.

you either are or your not.......spare me the I'm a catholic but don't go to mass rationalization !!

In a religious freedom case, Sotomayor backed two New York state prison inmates in 1994 who practiced the religion Santeria and challenged a prison rule that banned them from wearing multicolored religious beads.

Sotomayor, ruling that the pair could wear the beads under their clothing, criticized as intolerable "distinctions which favor 'traditional' over 'nontraditional' religions."

She also struck down a White Plains, N.Y., law preventing the display of religious symbols such as a 9-foot-high menorah in a city park.

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/05/26/D98E5N1O0_us_sotomayor_legal_profile/index.html

pandering to the Latino community and the Catholics.

but I don't expect Obama supporters to understand that.....pandering to the religious right is what got Obama elected.

And by the way, being catholic is like being pregnant.....you either are or your not. Spare me the I am catholic but I don't go to mass rationalization.

by public grounds I mean any property owned by the government....not necessarily any ground that happens to be public.

I think most would understand what I meant but you can never underestimate the religious fanatics.

your just seeing Obama for who and what he really is.

I get the same image of Obama in a couple of years, when people finally realize just how conservative he really is and most of the white liberals who voted for him stop believing the hype....will they realize then how much he has betrayed them?

as for a totalitarian future.....Obama supports the kidnapping, torture, and indefinite detention of any person in the world.

Obama just successfully lobbied the Supreme Court to reverse a 23 year old decision that requires a lawyer present during questioning.

I'd say your totalitarian future is already here.

I highly doubt any cop any where would get spat upon and not arrest the person who did it.....just touching a police officer is grounds to be arrested.

Sotomayor would be the 6th catholic on a 9 member court.....when exactly does the pope move into the white house?