Jeffrey Toobin and Amy Davidson review this week’s Supreme Court decisions.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 28 June 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Jeffrey Toobin and Amy Davidson review this week's Supreme Court decisions.
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| 0:52.9 | It's Friday, June 27th. I'm Amelia |
| 0:55.4 | Lester in for Dorothy Wickenden. This week, the Supreme Court made a number of |
| 1:00.4 | unanimous decisions on cell phone searches, presidential recess appointments, and buffer zones |
| 1:06.0 | around abortion clinics. To talk about the decisions, I'm joined by Jeffrey Tubin and Amy Davidson. |
| 1:12.5 | So let's start with the unanimous 90 ruling on cell phone privacy. Amy, tell us a little bit about |
| 1:18.4 | this case and what was decided. Well, the Supreme Court was considering two cases together. |
| 1:24.3 | The facts were similar, but in the main lead one, Riley versus California, a man was |
| 1:29.8 | stopped, his car was stopped, they found out it had some traffic issues with it. They searched |
| 1:36.5 | the car, they found a couple of guns, and then they took his cell phone, and they also searched |
| 1:43.4 | that in the sense of looking through it, |
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