Today reporter Pete Yost at the Associated Press wrote a paranoid story with a paranoid title leading the reader to think that police officers are now given permission by the U.S. Supreme Court to arrest anyone regardless of what state law says! Oh noooooooo!
A regular Constitutional scholar, this Pete Yost. And lazy as well. Had Yost merely read paragraph three of page one of the court’s decision, he might have read that
“the founding era’s statutes and common law do not support Moore’s [the Defendant's] view that the Fourth Amendment was intended to incorporate statutes. . . “ Virginia v. Moore (2007).
Hence, Virginia’s laws on when an arrest is legit or not have no bearing on the 4th Amendment and no bearing on the arrest of the Defendant Moore. Got that, Pete?
But no matter. The AP still published a misleading story, which really shouldn’t surprise me or anyone else. This media long ago discarded the pretense of objectivity, of reporting facts, truth and reality. For the AP and any other mainstream media source, it is leftist agenda 24/7/365.
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