HOW DO YOU TELL A JUDICIAL EXTREMIST?:

High court: police can use violent means to end high-speed chases: The Supreme Court's 8-to-1 decision involved a Georgia teenager, who sued a police deputy who rammed the teen's speeding car, causing serious physical damage. (Warren Richey, 5/01/07, The Christian Science Monitor)

In an important ruling defining Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures in the context of high-speed police chases, the US Supreme Court on Monday gave a green light to law enforcement to use violent force to stop fleeing suspects who pose a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical injury to others. [...]

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a lone dissent.

Presumably when Justice Stevens retires we'll be treated to a host of articles about how out of touch he was with the legal views of his peers and the American people, right?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 30, 2007 8:06 PM