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Morning, y’all, Jebediah Murphy here with a bit of that olde truthiness stuff. Who could have seen this coming?
In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.
Craig, of Idaho, is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport.
The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms “have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
That means the state cannot prove Craig was inviting an undercover officer to have sex in public, the ACLU wrote.
Well, I reckon tapping someones foot and stuff in a bathroom stall while possibly looking for sex in said bathroom is certainly better then blow jobs and a cigar up the, well, you know, in the Oval Office while discussing an air strike. Funny how the liberal feminists have no problem with Hillary being A-OK with that. But, I digress
The ACLU argued that even if Craig was inviting the officer to have sex, his actions wouldn’t be illegal.
“The government cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Senator Craig was inviting the undercover officer to engage in anything other than sexual intimacy that would not have called attention to itself in a closed stall in the public restroom,” the ACLU wrote in its brief.
Good point. On the flip side, he did plead guilty. Now, I reckon I am not a lawyer, but in court cases, the accused is usually allowed to recant their guilty plea. Why should Leisure Suit Larry not be afforded that same ability?
Just mind blowing, like a good batch of grog, that the ACLU would actually help. If only they would have jumped in to help the Duke Lacrosse Players.
Others covering the story: Stop The ACLU, Hot Air, AmeriPundit, Ace Of Spades, Macker’s World
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