Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Mark Bennett just put up a post about Harris County’s plans for what they call a “No-Refusal Weekend” over the holiday:
A no-refusal weekend is a weekend in which local law enforcement, prosecutors, and…judges team up to ensure that anyone who is arrested for DUI…who refuses to blow in the breathalyzer (as drivers are entitled to and generally should refuse, despite the legal fiction of “implied consent”) is subjected to a coerced blood draw under a search warrant.
Bennett goes off on a mini-rant about all this, and I suppose I could too, but something else occurred to me: If a Harris County, Texas can have judges available around the clock over the holiday to combat drunk driving, why should we believe the hacks in the Bush administration who insist that it’s too much work to get a wiretap warrant for national security?
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