CNN: Is Sotomayor the new Scalia?

[frankieallen]

76. Well, to play devils advocate.

"This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification, and check it for outstanding traffic warrants -- even if you are doing nothing wrong,"

If the court decided the opposite, as Sotomayor suggested, that you needed to be somehow breaking the law in order for an officer to ask you to identify yourself, that would be unprecedented IMO.
As i understand the law, if a police officer asks you for your id, or asks you to identify yourself, you must comply. I don't have a problem with that. They are there to protect us and to enforce the laws.
Cops deal with people every day, if they suspect someone is up to no good, they are probably right, and they should have the right to check.
If they are wrong, no harm done.

(full disclosure, my brother is a cop)