Sotomayor’s blistering SCOTUS dissent warns America is turning into a prison state Travis Gettys Tra
Source: rawstory.com
Sotomayors blistering SCOTUS dissent warns America is turning into a prison state
Travis Gettys
20 Jun 2016 at 14:18 ET
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Sotomayor said the courts ruling had essentially classified all Americans as inmates in the prison-industrial complex.
By legitimizing the conduct that produces this double consciousness, this case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time, Sotomayor wrote. It says that your body is subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights. It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.
She said the court had ignored mountains of evidence that police routinely harass some Americans with unreasonable searches and she warned that legitimizing those stops undermined democracy.
We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated,' Sotomayor wrote. They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere.............
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libdem4life
(13,877 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)BootinUp
(47,179 posts)she really slammed the majority and righteously so.
riversedge
(70,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,316 posts)rules have changed and opinion pieces are now ok in which case nevermind
riversedge
(70,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,316 posts)riversedge
(70,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,316 posts)with atleast a modicum of order and prevents cluttering the forum with mutliple threads that are essentially about the same topic.
If this had been posted say next month or even next week it might not break LBN about duplicates though it might break it about opinion pieces.
riversedge
(70,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,316 posts)riversedge
(70,282 posts)chapdrum
(930 posts)We've allowed an apparently lucrative for-profit prison system to establish "itself."
And now, the shareholders have grown accustomed to their amoral dividends.
And so, it becomes, in effect, yet another immutable law of nature; now that we have them, we are helpless to stop them.
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