[sam_paine]

You can TRY. But if you think you can get elected without support of moneyed interests...

There's some very unmonied interests that managed to get elected to local city councils around here, and those are the people that set the Police department enforcement/dog sniffing rules in this particular case.

I'll guess that Congressman BB thinks it's possible to participate in American Government and directly affect the outcome of whetheror not we become a police state.

[Congressman Billybob]

Contrary to the Associated Press and Justice Ginsburg, this decision "broadens" nothing. It has always been the rule that police officers on the scene at the time of a lawful stop are allowed to act on what they can see and hear. That is, what they can see and hear without engaging in any search.

The question in this case is whether the better olfactory skills of the police dog are like, or unlike, the eyes and noses of the officers themselves. The dog is not "searching" anything. He/she is simply smelling what is available in public. So, this is not an extra-ordinary decision or result.

Congressman Billybob

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