Political Quotes

“as the gentleman well knows, on the Committee on the Judiciary we are not doing away with the exclusionary rule completely. There are still certain protections out there. The law enforcement, although they do not do this anymore, they may have done this back in 1914 when this was necessary to formulate this rule, but people do not beat folks in back rooms with rubber hoses to extract confessions anymore. However, if they did, certainly the exclusionary rule would still be available. Mr. Speaker, what we are simply saying is that folks make mistakes. As long as they act in good faith, and a judge has to make that determination from an objective third party standpoint, that evidence ought to come in and not punish society because of a mistake. There are other avenues that that can be addressed in. However, we did, once we came to the House floor, we had a good, healthy debate, but we had truly bipartisan support on this, and the bill passed, as I recall, overwhelmingly.”