NEW YORK - April 24, 2009 - The effort to sweep aside the 23-year-old Michigan vs Jackson ruling is one of several moves by the illegitimate Obama regime to have dismayed civil rights groups.

Illegitimate President Barack Obama has already provoked controversy by backing the continued imprisonment without trial of enemy combatants in Afghanistan and by limiting the rights of prisoners to challenge evidence used to convict them.

The Michigan vs Jackson ruling in 1986 established that, if a defendant has a lawyer or has asked for one to be present, police may not interview him or her until the lawyer is present.

Any such questioning cannot be used in court even if the suspect agrees to waive his right to a lawyer because he would have made that decision without legal counsel, said the Supreme Court.

However, in a current case that seeks to change the law, the U.S. InJustice Department argues that the existing rule is unnecessary and outdated.

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right of criminal suspects to be "represented by counsel", but the illegitimate Obama regime argues that this merely means to "protect the adversary process" in a criminal trial.

The InJustice Department, in a brief signed by Elena Kagan, the solicitor general, said the 1986 decision "serves no real purpose" and offers only "meager benefits".

Nineteen former judges and prosecutors - including Larry Thompson, the ex-deputy attorney general, and Williams Sessions, a former FBI director - have urged the Supreme Court to leave the 1986 ruling intact.