Leahy: Senate Can't Change Miranda

Sam Stein of the Huffington Post reports that Senator Pat Leahy does not expect any changes to be made to laws regarding Miranda rights, since the Senate has to work within the confines of a Supreme Court decision:

"I sat down and talked with the president about this," Leahy said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week." "The question is not so much whether I'm concerned about the civil rights one way or another, it is what a court will agree to. After all, it was the Supreme Court that set down the rules of Miranda. Whatever changes might be made, have to made within the confines of what the United States Supreme Court has already said.

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