As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will not review a lower court's decision that an FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson's congressional office violated the Constitution, a ruling that federal prosecutors had said could make lawmakers' offices a "sanctuary for crime."
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Robert Barnes and Susan Schmidt

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