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Boumediene Backlash: Over at Bench Memos, Ed Whalen offers a critique of Washington Post writer, George F. Will's attack of McCain's comment that Boumediene was "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.? Whalen's post discusses the shortcomings of Will's article, while wondering whether Will himself has read, and understood, the Boumediene decision. New Way to Look at "Going Postal": Over at Volokh Conspiracy guest blogger Anuj Desai has a post submitting that the origins of certain constitutional doctrines can be traced to eighteenth-century postal policy. In particular, Desai argues the doctrines of 1) First Amendment restrictions on government subsidies for speech ); (2) the First Amendment ?right to receive? ideas; and (3) the Fourth Amendment principle of communications privacy, may all be traced to early congressional policy decisions, that embedded as attributes of the postal institution, and then were applied to other areas of constitutional law...continue to full post

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