"Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite.
You might recall that in response to the decision this year in Lawrence and Garner versus Texas, which established that people have a right to sexual privacy in their own bedrooms, free from the meddling of state laws criminalizing their adult, consensual sexual behaviour, Rush Limbaugh said, "There is no right to privacy specifically enumerated in the Constitution." We reposted an article about this detailing lots of rights we take for granted that aren't specifically enumerated in the Constitution and how the word "privacy" in colonial times meant doing a toilet.
It turns out that Limbaugh has miraculously discovered a Constitutional right to privacy when it's his privacy in question. As you probably know, Limbaugh is being investigated for illegally obtaining thousands of doses of Oxycontin to feed his drug addiction. As part of that investigation, prosecutors wanted access to his medical records. I agreed that it wouldn't be appropriate for the records to be made fully public, but that as part of an ongoing criminal investigation it was proper for records pertinent to the investigation to be subpoenaed.
But Rush "No Constitutional Right to Privacy" Limbaugh's lawyers, led by Roy Black argued that releasing his medical records to prosecutors violated Limbaugh's Constitutional right to privacy. Judge Jeffrey A. Winikoff disagreed, saying, "The court knows of no less intrusive means to obtain the clearly relevant information than the methods the state employed here." He added that the state had acted in good faith.
Maybe what Rush meant to say that there was no Constitutional right to privacy for law-abiding homosexuals, but there is a Constitutional right to privacy for conservative radio talk show host prescription drug addicts.
---Nick"
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