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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
With the Supreme Court ruling, as stated in the article - The traffic stop and the subsequent consensual search of the car were therefore also reasonable. The owner of the car was asked by the cops if they could search, and granted them permission. Kind of a big mistake when you're carrying cocaine (or any other non-prescribed narcotic), but oh well.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Remember, the Fourth and Fifth amendments protect actual criminals as well as innocent people. They have to.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's not an unreasonable search when they grant permission for it. I'm actually surprised that police can only actually pull you over for actual legal violations, I figured that they are perfectly okay to pull you over just to dispense advise/alert you to something.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
At least it was a word with multiple meanings. Better than that Mc Donalds "I'd hit that" campaign.
However, state Republicans are unwilling to kil their tax policy, desiring to reduce expenditures and the size of the Kansas state government before ever considering touching their tax policy.
edited 16th Dec '14 9:50:05 AM by PotatoesRock
And has been for some time. All through the year it seemed like every month their financial picture was getting grimmer and more alarming as the fact that supply side economics doesn't work was proven there yet again.
Politico has something of a reputation for superficial and sometimes rather misleading reporting, writing more or less clickbait articles, supporting the Golden Mean Fallacy about how everyone is responsible for dysfunction in government, and chaos and dissent among the upper echelons of the organization. The most recent of which is that they got an editor from the NY Times to become their editor-in-chief and he promptly resigned after less than a year due to disagreement about where the organization was going, or something like that.
Also I believe a bunch of the founders are former Reagan staffers and such, which gets them regarded with suspicion by liberals.
edited 16th Dec '14 10:53:40 AM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |For one thing, the Politico article seems to be overstating the divide between Democrats as part of an insistence on false equivalency between the two parties.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Were they among the ones who tried pushing the horserace narrative and kept calling Obama Romney and even Obama McCain too close to call? I forget if they were one of the publications called to task for reporting that in an effort to increase sales, clicks and interest, instead of reporting that Obama had things fairly well in hand.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Jeb Bush tweeted this morning he will "actively explore" a run for president.
edited 16th Dec '14 11:10:54 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."I'd giggle about that, but sexual acts while driving is actually a really big problem that kills people, and it tends to happen more often in rural 'MURICA states that actually have roads isolated enough that dumbasses think they can get away with it. So yeah. This is a thing big enough to warrant PSA action on this end of the country.
Still less hilarious than McDonalds' "I'd hit that" but let's face it — nobody's gonna top that.
edited 16th Dec '14 12:07:32 PM by Pykrete

GOP should support
#ICan'tBreathe protests and push for police accountability, if they're really pushing for better government. I won't be holding my breath for it, though.
Koch is "socially liberal."
But pushes economics because bad economic policy can ruin the country.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw