Even more on Roberts
Writing for a unanimous court, Judge Roberts rejected Fourth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause challenges to the arrest and detention of a twelve-year old girl for eating french fries on a Metro train.
Writing for a unanimous court, Judge Roberts rejected Fourth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause challenges to the arrest and detention of a twelve-year old girl for eating french fries on a Metro train.
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July 20th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
Beldar has excerpts from that case, which make it pretty clear that Roberts wasn’t at all happy about the conduct of the a-hole cops, but that the Constitution didn’t give him much to work with on these facts – as evidenced further by the fact that the ruling was unanimous.
July 20th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Well, he should have been an activist judge and said ‘you know what, guys, this is fucking stupid.’ 🙂
July 20th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Have you read Beldar’s excerpts? That’s not too far off from what he did write.