Grits for Breakfast Blog: Pretext stops subvert public trust, undermine rule of law

Grits for Breakfast Blog: Pretext stops subvert public trust, undermine rule of law

A law that everyone routinely violates because of its arbitrariness and impracticality becomes a path for the government to bypass 4th Amendment protections. Police can simply follow anyone they choose for a few minutes and wait for a signal less than 100 feet before a turn. Then they get a supposedly legal if objectively dubious basis to conduct a roadside search.

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