Retired Justice Stevens finds six ways to change Constitution

Mobile-phone searches, junior-league politicians, greedy lawyers round out the roundup

Steve Lash//April 28, 2014

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Retired Justice Stevens finds six ways to change Constitution

Retired Justice Stevens finds six ways to change Constitution

Mobile-phone searches, junior-league politicians, greedy lawyers round out the roundup

By Steve Lash

//April 28, 2014

Welcome to Monday, the 226th anniversary of Maryland’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

— Retired Justice John Paul Stevens has a half-dozen ways to change the Constitution.

— Does the Fourth Amendment permit a mobile-phone search incident to arrest?

— Are Supreme Court justices ‘junior-league politicians’?

— Is the road to Hell paved by greedy lawyers?

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