Would you support an effort to overturn the Miranda ruling?

The Court itself has been unwilling to overturn the Miranda ruling, although it has repeatedly refused to broaden the decision.

The Justice Department report cited a number of studies showing, it said, that the Miranda ruling had damaged law-enforcement efforts.

One study, it said, showed that the number of confessions by suspected killers and robbers in Pittsburgh had dropped by half following the Miranda ruling.

The Miranda ruling followed on the heels of two other major Supreme Court rulings.

Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion, and began by briefly describing the historical backdrop against which the Miranda ruling had emerged.

A constitutional interpretation is what most people have always assumed the Miranda ruling to be.

This term, in upholding campaign finance reform or extending the Miranda ruling, the Supreme Court has continued to position itself with the majority of Americans.

Liberals and defense lawyers said yesterday that the Miranda ruling did establish new constitutional rights that could not be revoked by Congress in 1968.

But for some conservatives the Miranda ruling remains philosophically troubling.