If your anal probes are limited to a yearly visit to your proctologist you’re just not living.
It’s as if these Justices have never heard of Ferguson. That police department was notorious for handing out fines and citations to largely minority members of the community. And it resulted in a tragic breakdown in communication between the police and the community. It also resulted in fines, that were largely unaffordable, multiplying to the point these people couldn’t get jobs and were afraid to even venture outside in fear of being arrested. As a result, you have wasted lives stuck in idle.
And now they want to use a traffic warrant…a traffic warrant?!..as an excuse to infringe on an individual’s rights? A citation that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand. I’m very disappointed in the more progressive members of the Judiciary.
I expect the “Freedom Caucus” and the “Minutemen” to be all over this…not.
Then we have Civil Seizures …
What the hell, Breyer?
Of course this decision is not relevant when the stop and search of All-American football players is at issue. They don’t need no stinking Fourth Amendment!!
Alabama junior Cam Robinson, one of the most talented offensive tackles in college football, will not be prosecuted on charges stemming from his arrest last month in his hometown of Monroe, La.
The district attorney declined to prosecute the case due to insufficient evidence, per NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.
"I want to emphasize once again that the main reason I'm doing this is that I refuse to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and teenage years working and sweating, while we were all at home in the air conditioning," District Attorney Jerry Jones told KNOE News.
Robinson was charged with illegal possession of stolen firearms, a felony, as well as possession of a controlled dangerous substance and illegal carrying of a weapon in the presence of narcotics. His Alabama teammate Laurence "Hootie" Jones, also of Monroe, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and illegal carrying of a weapon in the presence of narcotics.
The arraignment of the pair, scheduled for last week, was postponed on Thursday. The decision not to prosecute the case was made on Thursday before the arraignment was postponed, and that's when Alabama coach Nick Saban learned of the decision, per Rapoport.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000670509/article/da-declines-to-prosecute-case-against-alabamas-cam-robinsonSotomayor is technically right, but this case was not a great example of police over-reach for three reasons:
- The cop was acting on a tip, so this wasn’t a random stop.
- The defendant was in possession of illegal narcotics, so the tip was valid.
- There was an outstanding warrant on the defendant which, effectively, covered the cop’s ass.
Throwing this case out because the police procedure wasn’t perfectly clean would invite too much backlash from law enforcement. It wouldn’t be worth it.
More like these Justices don’t see what is wrong in Ferguson.
Huge difference.
MExicaN women aRE SO HOt Headed. I GUess BETTEr thaN BEING replete with RAPEry LIKE their MEN.
…and he went on to add Roll Tide!..in the most professional of manners possible.
Football wins again! Being a star in sports is a protected class in America, like being rich and White.
Golly, Dave, I wonder if that’s why the (then) dominantly conservative court agreed to hear this case. Sotomayor is 100% correct on what the outcome of this decision will be.
Right?
A traffic violation trumps probable cause??!
Because the old white farts club won’t do it and Clarence Thomas is a turnip.
This is but one more reason to vote Democrat, we put wise, empathetic women on the SC.
What’s up with Bryer?
Mitch McConnell is going to regret his abdication of his constitutional duty by shunning Judge Garland, when Hillary nominates a Sotomayor equivalent to the SCOTUS…and then another. Mitch, you are stupid, stupid party-before-country wanker.
In the same vein, why is the House allowing SCOTUS to issue rulings with a contentious Presidential election in the offing?
The tone deafness of this court is beyond incredulity, since they essentially have Sotomayor throw these inconvenient truths into their faces.
One can only conclude that the judges who wrote the majority opinion relish the fact that they live in a police state.
My first reaction was, well, if they had a warrant, but Sotomayor’s rationale swayed me. Post-hoc justification opens the door to all sorts of mischief. For example, gambling that one can be found when confronting a suspiciously dark-hued person trying to blend in by walking down the street right in front of a cop! Not that a cop ever thinks that way…