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1. Yeah. Scalia wrote the opinion, and every other Justice signed onto it. Scalia is not some unique iconoclastic privacy loving Justice, he was in line with th
by modriano 4y ago
1. Yeah. Scalia wrote the opinion, and every other Justice signed onto it. Scalia is not some unique iconoclastic privacy loving Justice, he was in line with the way the court thinks about the 4A.
2a. Imagine a police officer falsely alleged a traffic violation. How much equipment would the pulled-over driver need to have to prove the allegation was false, and how much would it cost to then prove the allegation false? How much equipment would police cars need to prove every allegation was valid? Why are we going to pretend this isn't just another case where the Supreme Court is coaching police on what words they need to put in reports (eg "furtive gestures" to justify a Terry stop, or any traffic violation for this) to allow "us" to have our cake (the 4A) and eat it too (still overpolice Black neighborhoods and chase Black people out of suburbs)?
2b. Should driving 26 mph in a zone with a 25 mph speed limit eliminate protections against a stop and a search? If there are so many traffic laws that it's inevitable that following someone for 10 minutes would yield 1 violation, in what sense do we really have any 4A protection while on the road?