<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4f32d97a-9f0f-4ef4-a182-c78c877a6345/A6F0005A-82E3-4E8C-911E-C347CC69B9D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/01/larry-craig-gets-help-from-aclu.html" href="http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/01/larry-craig-gets-help-from-aclu.html" style="font-size: 11px;">snafu-ed.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/01/larry-craig-gets-help-from-aclu.html"><DIV><A href="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee248/msanto/Politics/LarryCraig.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee248/msanto/Politics/LarryCraig.jpg" /></A>Larry Craig's getting help from a source he probably didn't expect: the ACLU.</DIV><BR /><DIV>We know that Craig unsuccessfully tried to get his guilty plea revoked, but despite failing that, has decided to serve out his term, which ends in 2009.</DIV><BR /><DIV>On Tuesday the ACLU filed a brief citing 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."</DIV><BR /><DIV>Okaaaay.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The brief also said, "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."</DIV><BR /><DIV>Uh-huh.</DIV><BR />You'll recall that according to the incident report on his arrest, Larry Craig said he has a "<A href="http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2007/08/larry-craigs-incident-report-uncovered.html">wide stance</A>" when using a restroom. It seems like the ACLU is taking a wide stance on the amount of leeway to give him.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A6F0005A-82E3-4E8C-911E-C347CC69B9D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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