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Supreme Court upholds strip searches even for minor offenses
Hey, did we discuss this??
And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
Re: Supreme Court upholds strip searches even for minor offenses
Yeah, it's pretty awful. I meant to bring it up here but forgot.
I just don't even understand how they could justify this. Why is it yet another partisan split vote? How could anyone justify that a strip search of a guy who's wanted for, what was it, not paying a fine? Having a debt makes you a druggie or violent?
Would a white guy be treated that way? I'm thinking no.
I believe so. I believe he'd also had the warrent quashed and carried the documentation showing that it had been quashed. Which also didn't help him.
Wasn't there also something about how he was denied the ability to talk to his wife when that would have further helped him be released? I read about this a few days ago, but I forget the details.
I haven't read the opinion, but I read an article about it yesterday and was confused by this part:
"Kennedy also said people arrested for minor offenses can turn out to be "the most devious and dangerous criminals." Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh initially was stopped by a state trooper who noticed McVeigh was driving without a license plate, Kennedy said."
Did Timothy McVeigh have a bomb up his ass labeled "Just for you, Oklahoma!" that, upon detection during a strip search, would have triggered long-term imprisonment and prevented the Oklahoma City bombing? Or would his "devious and dangerous mind" somehow have been detected by the way his balls were hanging?
I understand the point Justice Kennedy is making, but this struck me as a particularly lousy example to support his point.
You didn't happen to see the Daily Show bit on this, did you? Or are you just in a mind meld with Jon Stewart?
I haven't watched TDS all week. Did Jon Stewart say the same thing??
Almost verbatim.
My mind. BLOWN.
Seriously??
Cripes, I'm not even original.
ETA: Or perhaps I should simply take solace in the fact that I'm not the only one who found the example weird. Because it's weird, dammit.
ETA2: Nope, I'm going back to the tears. Three years of law school and all those years of practice, and the best legal analysis I come up with is the same as that by some non-lawyer comedian.
I can't even wrap my head around how insane this opinion is. I just can't. It's just plain gross.
And the John Stewart episode was on Tuesday night. It's a must watch. Tom Goldstein is the guest, and he argued for the guy who was strip searched.
If it makes you feel better, think of the possiblity that he has some writers that went to law school and are ex-lawyers on staff.
I haven't actually read the opinion, but surprisingly, I really have no problem with this ruling.
I feel like I should, but I don't.
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