Cato blog: A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext

Cato blog: A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext by Jonathan Blanks:

Several years ago, Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf asked Twitter “If you could add one Bill of Rights style amendment to the Constitution what would it be?” I responded “The Fourth Amendment and “we mean it.””

My answer may have been tongue-in-cheek, but quite seriously, the Fourth Amendment and its protections have been eroded by the Supreme Court precedents over several decades. As a result, the power of the police to intrude upon the lives of individuals has grown and they have taken advantage of that power throughout the country.

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