THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
With keen insight and telling detail, Shipler describes how the Supreme Court?s constitutional rulings play out on the streets as Washington, D.C., police officers search for guns in poor African American neighborhoods, how a fruitless search warrant turns the house of a Homeland Security employee upside down, and how the secret surveillance and jailing of an innocent lawyer result from an FBI lab mistake. Each instance?often as shocking as it is compelling?is a clear illustration of the risks posed to individual liberties in our modern society