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THOMAS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and KENNEDY, BREYER, and ALITO, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which GINSBURG, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined.
thomas vs scalia? Weird times
Wow! Scalia joining the most liberal of Justices is simply bizarre.
‘A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail’
Not ANOTHER ONE!!??
There’s nothing to stop the police from giving anonymous tips to themselves.
Thomas and Alito are "law and order" conservatives. They will almost never vote to find any search unconstitutional. Scalia can also sometimes be very pro-prosecution in criminal cases, but also sometimes (like today) has a bit of a libertarian streak.
On the "liberal" side of the Court, Kagan and Sotomayor are usually pro-defendant in criminal cases, but Breyer (often) and Ginsburg (sometimes) can be pro-prosecution.
Time to clean house of these azzholes!
What was Thomas thinking?
If a driver is merely suspected of reckless driving, what would be accomplished by pulling him over??
Now if someone ACCUSES him of reckless driving, and wishes to press the complaint by testifying in court, then file the complaint and let the case be heard. (Anonymous tips don’t enter into this picture, of course.)
Seems clear to me that this is all a smokescreen for abrogating the Fourth and Fifth Amendments - and a thin one at that (which says a lot about the state of affairs in this country.)
This is a tough one and I can see it both ways.
I think the key is that it’s anonymous. So that you can use this to harass people.
What if I anonymously called and said you had a bomb and illegal guns in your house? The police raid you and find nothing. Who is held responsible for this activity? The police were just following up on an anonymous tip. Hell the police could even call it in themselves anonymously...no warrant needed. Call in an anonymous tip that some child is being kept in the basement...no need for a warrant now. Ooops we didn’t find any kids but we did find something else.
Scalia is woried that the police could simply setup a checkpoint somewhere with a civilian hired by the police can sit there at the side of the road saying “That car look suspicious” and point at every car being made to go through the checkpoint.
Kagan and the other Liberal witches are looking to protect the dopers who vote Demoncraps, Scalia is looking to protect against unreasonable search and seizure...
Sometimes the “Law and Order Republicans” are as bad as the Statists who “Trust in the Government” when it comes to the power granted to the state...
This is one of those occasions...
Need to start phoning in anonymous tips on government officials.
Thats along the same lines as; “I can search you and your car because my probable cause is I think you are acting suspicious”
“Whats your probable cause?”
“You’re acting funny.”
These terrorists hate us for our freedom! No, not the the terrorists hiding in a cave. There might be a dozen of those on a good day. I mean the ~600 terrorists hold up in the fever swamp on the Potomac.
License to kill, given by the USSC, to every government agent.
An anonymous tipster says, that you have a firearm and waived it around before driving away.
Odds are, you are going to die ... that day ... and not have a clue during your few moments of confusion-compounding-terror preceding the “100 shots fired.”
Almost *no police officer* will believe your sputtering surprise at being attacked by an army.
The USSC decision is madness, to believe that police officers will as narrowly figure on the issue being a traffic stop for the purpose of making sure that you are sober ... as has the incredibly and suddenly extremely narrow imagination of the Justices.
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On some limited access roadways you see signs asking you to report aggressive drivers by dialing *77 (IIRC). That kind of anonymous tip probably saves lives.
I wonder if any of these justices who voted for this drive a car? Anonymous swatting anyone?