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Strange Bedfellows: ACLU and Rush Limbaugh

The ACLU is is siding with Rush Limbaugh:

The American Civil Liberties Union took sides with Rush Limbaugh on Monday by complaining that Florida investigators violated the conservative radio host's rights when they seized his medical records. The odd coupling of the civil liberties group and the broadcaster beloved for bashing came in a criminal probe of Limbaugh's admitted use of prescription painkillers, in which authorities in Palm Beach County used a search warrant to seize files from his doctors.

In a friend-of-the-court petition to Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal, the ACLU said investigators violated Limbaugh's constitutional right to privacy when they took the records in a raid rather than notifying Limbaugh and using a subpoena, which would have given Limbaugh the right to object before the seizure.

The ACLU and Rush are right on this one. Here is the ACLU's press release.

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