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Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal, sits down with PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff to evaluate the U.S. Supreme Court's Tuesday arguments in United States v. Microsoft. The justices are looking at whether to force Microsoft to turn over emails—stored in Ireland—to the U.S. government in an ongoing criminal investigation.

“Right away, there were several justices who were concerned about how to apply this 1986 law to modern technology, Coyle said. “Justice Ginsburg, for example, said, back in 1986, no one ever heard of clouds. And she wondered, wouldn't it be better to leave things as they are? We have to give an all-or-nothing decision, but Congress can take account of all the nuance, the new technology. Justice Breyer also said, is there any way we can read the language in the act to adapt it to modern times?”

Coyle and Woodruff also spotlight Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent in the immigration case Jennings v. Rodriguez. Breyer, reading his dissent from the bench, said the U.S. Justice Department had embraced “legal fiction” that asylum seekers are not accorded due process protections because the law treats arriving aliens as if they were not on U.S. territory.

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