doctrine describes the situation

in which federal courts admit evidence in federal court seized as a result

of an unreasonable search and seizure by state officers. Elkins v. United

States, 364 U.S. 206, 208, 80 S. Ct. 1437, 1439 (1960).         In the past,

federal courts accepted the doctrine and admitted the evidence in federal

court. See Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383, 398, 34 S. Ct. 341, 346

(1914). In Elkins, the United States Supreme Court rejected the silver-

platter doctrine. Elkins, 364 U.S. at 208, 80 S. Ct. at 1439.

       In rejecting the silver-platter doctrine, the Court sought to

preserve the judicial integrity of the federal court system. Id. at 222, 80

S. Ct. at 1447. As the Court noted,

 opinion

Germany puts Germany first

Berlin's reverence for multilateralism is a thin veil for its nationalist foreign policy.

German soldiers hold Germany's national flag | Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images

Since the end of World War II, German statesmen from across the political spectrum have insisted that their nation has no national interests, only supranational ones. As founding chancellor of the divided, postwar Federal Republic, Konrad Adenauer chose to rehabilitate his defeated country through the path of Westbindung, (literally “binding to the West”), subsuming it under European and transatlantic integration.

Two decades later, the Ostpolitik of Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt sought to reconcile Germany with the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) through trade and highly symbolic expressions of repentance, like his impromptu genuflection at the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In the