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[email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ ,;:- WHITE HOUSE LAW LIBRARY ROOM 528 OEOB (2021 395-3391/ ·/ D 57 To @J1 dd:J Room~/~ From~ ( e_, flJ(l:si: t-T eep ___ To Borrow (Date Due _____, ___ Per Your Request/Per Our Conversation ditor's note: Over th e years, critics of the These justices were engaged in a less c/11sio11ary rule have called it, among other ambitious venture, albeit a most important ings, an "illogical," "-irrational," and "un one. They were interpreting the Fourth atural" interpretation of the Fourth and Amendment as b est they could. As they saw 011rtee11th Amendments. it, the rule-now known as the federal exclu Last fall, for example, U.S. Court of Ap sionary rule-rested on "a principled basis 5 als Judge Malcolm Wilkey, writing in the rather than an empirical proposition." all Street Journal, said the rule "is not The dissenters in United States v. Caland required by the Constitution . ... The exclu- ra were, I think, plainly right when they ionary rule is a judge-made rule of evidence maintained that "uppermost in the minds of hich bars 'the use of evidence secured the framers of the [exclusionary] mle" was rough an illegal search and seiz ure.' ..