What Timing

A follow-up from yesterday's blurb about the Financial Times story about the Supreme Court. The Supremes handed down their decision today in the case which was the centerpiece of the article. They got it wrong, too. By a vote of 6-3, the justices concluded that stops at so-called "informational" road blocks were kosher under the Fourth Amendment. That's without any suspicion of wrongdoing on the driver's part, BTW. Before too long, we'll see these "informational" road blocks reinforced with drug dogs and other crime fighting technology, I imagine.

BTW, the court's opinion is in PDF format, so you'll need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat reader. Go get it. It's free and incredibly handy.