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Justice Sotomayor Delivers Blistering Dissent In Utah Search Case
June 20, 2016 on All Things Considered
Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that an otherwise illegal search of a pedestrian by a police officer in Utah was permissible under the Constitution because the pedestrian had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent focused on the implications of the decision. .....
June 20, 2016 on All Things Considered
Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that an otherwise illegal search of a pedestrian by a police officer in Utah was permissible under the Constitution because the pedestrian had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent focused on the implications of the decision. .....
Read Justice Sotomayor's Words on Racial Injustice Before You Go to Sleep Tonight
The truth about "isolated" incidents.
Charles P. Pierce Jun 20, 2016
WASHINGTON—Madame Justice Sonia Sotomayor seems to have felt her last nerve jumped upon. Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Utah v. Streiff. The case involved a man named Edward Streiff, who was stopped without cause by a police officer in Salt Lake City. The officer discovered that Streiff had an outstanding warrant and, upon searching Streiff, discovered methamphetamine. The Utah Supreme Court—that would be the supreme court that works in Utah!—reversed Streiff's conviction because the original police stop had been illegal. By a 5-3 margin, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decision of the Utah Supreme Court, the majority arguing that the discovery of the meth made the original stop less illegal. Justice Clarence Thomas opined in a majority opinion that the "deterrent value" of the arrest mitigated the illegality of the stop. (If this sounds like ends justifying means, that's only because it is.)
Madame Justice Sotomayor, writing in dissent, cranked up the Enola Gay.
She summoned up the "suspicionless stops" which were characteristic of Jim Crow law-enforcement. After she paid decent fealty to the universality of Fourth Amendment protections, she made it quite clear that a lot of this is About Race, even though nothing ever is About Race. She even talked about how, sometimes, when people of color are stopped without cause, those people end up being dead.
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The truth about "isolated" incidents.
Charles P. Pierce Jun 20, 2016
WASHINGTON—Madame Justice Sonia Sotomayor seems to have felt her last nerve jumped upon. Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Utah v. Streiff. The case involved a man named Edward Streiff, who was stopped without cause by a police officer in Salt Lake City. The officer discovered that Streiff had an outstanding warrant and, upon searching Streiff, discovered methamphetamine. The Utah Supreme Court—that would be the supreme court that works in Utah!—reversed Streiff's conviction because the original police stop had been illegal. By a 5-3 margin, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decision of the Utah Supreme Court, the majority arguing that the discovery of the meth made the original stop less illegal. Justice Clarence Thomas opined in a majority opinion that the "deterrent value" of the arrest mitigated the illegality of the stop. (If this sounds like ends justifying means, that's only because it is.)
Madame Justice Sotomayor, writing in dissent, cranked up the Enola Gay.
She summoned up the "suspicionless stops" which were characteristic of Jim Crow law-enforcement. After she paid decent fealty to the universality of Fourth Amendment protections, she made it quite clear that a lot of this is About Race, even though nothing ever is About Race. She even talked about how, sometimes, when people of color are stopped without cause, those people end up being dead.
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Drew Childers @TPFBreakingNews 58 seconds ago
In 1 Quote, Sonia Sotomayor Sums Up What's Wrong With Unreasonable Search and Seizure
https://mic.com/articles/146645/in-one-quote-sonia-sotomayor-sume-up-what-s-wrong-with-unreasonable-search-and-seizure … - @mic
In 1 Quote, Sonia Sotomayor Sums Up What's Wrong With Unreasonable Search and Seizure
https://mic.com/articles/146645/in-one-quote-sonia-sotomayor-sume-up-what-s-wrong-with-unreasonable-search-and-seizure … - @mic
Purplegarter @Purplegarter1 2 minutes ago
The Supreme Court Just Ruled In Favor Of The Police State, And Sonia Sotomayor Is Not Having It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sonia-sotomayor-police_us_57680301e4b0fbbc8beaf4ae
The Supreme Court Just Ruled In Favor Of The Police State, And Sonia Sotomayor Is Not Having It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sonia-sotomayor-police_us_57680301e4b0fbbc8beaf4ae
John Crowley-Buck @johncrowleybuck 4 minutes ago
Powerful, but tragic in its necessity. Justice Sotomayor’s dissent against racial profiling...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/20/sonia_sotomayor_dissent_in_utah_v_strieff_takes_on_police_misconduct.html
Powerful, but tragic in its necessity. Justice Sotomayor’s dissent against racial profiling...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/20/sonia_sotomayor_dissent_in_utah_v_strieff_takes_on_police_misconduct.html
World kNews @world_knews 5 minutes ago
Sotomayor's Blistering Dissent Against 'Frisk While Brown'
http://worldknewz.com/index.php?menu=trends&id=1466478002&l=en&key0=8 …
Sotomayor's Blistering Dissent Against 'Frisk While Brown'
http://worldknewz.com/index.php?menu=trends&id=1466478002&l=en&key0=8 …
Rosemary @rosemarycolon 6 minutes ago
In Scathing Dissent Justice Sotomayor Says Supreme Court Just Gave The Green Light To Racist Cops
http://thkpr.gs/3790300 via @thinkprogress
In Scathing Dissent Justice Sotomayor Says Supreme Court Just Gave The Green Light To Racist Cops
http://thkpr.gs/3790300 via @thinkprogress
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