Trust me Texas does allow suspicionless checkpoints. There are all sorts of checkpoints 100’s of miles from the border on all the main highways.
Yeah, border checkpoints belong on the border. In Michigan you can only cross the border 4 places by car so its easy to do them at the bridges and tunnel.
Those and “no refusal weekends” where they stop everyone and if you refuse a breathalyser, you get your blood drawn!
In my county, there is an atty running for JP who really really wants to sign “blood warrants” because her family suffered from a drunk driver last year. She seems to be MADD on overdrive... I think we should keep the non-atty incumbent who is doing a great job.
Drunk driving is against the law - not everyone is doing it and suspicionless checkpoints violate civil rights of those who aren’t drunk. JMHO
Those are federal checkpoints though, authorized under a ridiculous ruling that allows them to put up checkpoints for “border security” up to that distance from the border.
I went through one of those checkpoints in western Texas in October 1981. The men were all Texas Rangers. I showed them my Navy orders and they inspected the two rather large seabags in the back of my ‘72 240Z.