Rod, I'm not a liberal. My explanation of conservative concerns with Miranda is not liberal bias
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:the right to know that anything said can and will be used against the accused
:the right to know that anything said can and will be used against the accused
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Conservatives objected strenuously to this decision, which freed many criminals who had not received these warnings.
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Conservatives objected strenuously to this decision, which freed many criminals who had not received these warnings. This has led some to regard ''Miranda'' as a step towards subordinating the substantive criminal law to overzealous proceduralism, raising concerns about whether the guilty are actually punished.
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A majority of the [[Rehnquist Court]] was on record with the opinion that the [[U.S. Constitution]] does not require a reading of the Miranda warning. But in ''Dickerson v. United States'', 530 U.S. 428 (2000), a 7-2 opinion written by Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]] upheld the Miranda warnings by saying that "the warnings have become part of our national culture." Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] railed against this decision in dissent, but the Miranda warnings remain mandatory to this day.
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A majority of the [[Rehnquist Court]] was on record with the opinion that the [[U.S. Constitution]] does not require a reading of the Miranda warning. But in ''Dickerson v. United States'', 530 U.S. 428 (2000), a 7-2 opinion written by Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]] upheld the Miranda warnings by saying that "the warnings have become part of our national culture." Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] railed against this decision in dissent, but the Miranda warnings remain mandatory to this day. Similar respect for old but deeply flawed cases animates moderate support for [[Roe v. Wade]] and [[abortion]], a troubling proposition indeed.