The Exclusionary Rule may be eliminated by future U.S. Supreme Court decisions according to Emory University law professor Paul H. Rubin.  In his opinion article in Saturday's Wall Street Journal  Professor Rubin discusses how Chief Justice Robert's opinion in Herring v. United States could signify a Court movement towards eliminating the rule.  The article also discusses research on the cost of enforcing the rule.

Gitmo Conflicts at DOJ:  A story (registration required) by Legal Times reporter Joe Palazzolo focuses on a problem at President Obama's new Department of Justice.  Many of the new lawyers recruited to prosecute terrorists, among other things, come from law firms that represented terrorist detainees held at Gitmo.  As a result, several high ranking officials at Justice, including Attorney General Eric Holder himself, will have to recuse themselves in matters involving the detainees their firms have been defending.