Political Quotes

“I just want to say, implicit in this amendment as well as in the last one, is a denigration of the Federal bench; an assertion that they are incapable of judging whether an acquisition of evidence was in good faith, by an objectively reasonable standard; or whether the public, the long-suffering, victimized public, is better served by the admission of this evidence of guilt or not. But to carve out exceptions for various Federal agencies not only is insulting to those agencies--and that may or may not be true, but this is not the place to direct those insults--but it also demeans the bench, the Federal bench. I do not think we should overlook that. The whole point of the exercise today in passing this legislation is to give relief to the American public in situations where technicalities have been throwing out evidence where people otherwise should have been given the chance and court should have been given the chance to convict the bad guys. It is not to try to open the door in any way to reduce or relax the standards of the fourth amendment protections against unlawful search and seizures.”