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Three Recent Supreme Court Decisions That Reveal Dangerous Intentions
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Three Recent Supreme Court Decisions That Reveal Dangerous Intentions
Posted on Jun 6, 2012
By Bill Blum
Whither the Supreme Court?
As the country waits in fear and loathing for the high tribunal to drop the dime on Obamacare and give its blessings to Arizonas papers please immigration law, court watchers might do well to parse the damage Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have already done this term to our collective rights and liberties.
With more than 70 cases on its total docket and more than a dozen still undecided, including the health care and Arizona blockbusters, its difficult to single out the opinions issued to date that best illustrate the courts hard turn to the right. But here are three that should make any short list:
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders, County of Burlington
In March 2005, Albert Florence, a 34-year-old African-American car dealership executive, was riding in the passenger seat of his SUV. His pregnant wife was at the wheel and the couples three children were nestled in the back when a New Jersey state trooper pulled the vehicle over for speeding. The trooper ran a routine records check on a statewide computer database, which disclosed that Florence had an outstanding arrest warrant for nonpayment of a fine stemming from his arrest seven years earlier after he had fled the scene of a traffic stop.
Although the fine in fact had been fully paid, Florence was taken into custody. Over the next week, he was housed in two county detention centers and was subjected in each to full-body strip-searches during which he was made to stand naked, squat, cough, spread his butt cheeks and move his genitals. It was humiliating, Florence later told The New York Times. It made me feel less than a man. It made me feel not better than an animal. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_recent_supreme_court_decisions_that_reveal_dangerous_intentions_20120/
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Three Recent Supreme Court Decisions That Reveal Dangerous Intentions (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec. nt
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)2. I'd add Monday's decision by the SCOTUS *not* to grant certiorari to
Gov. Don Siegelman. They won't review his saga of being indicted on and convicted of false charges of bribery.