Whren v. United States
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The Subversive Countercultural Way to Talk About Rights
Sally Kohn: It's such a lawyer brain thing to be like, well, we don't need to figure out whether this is racist because like, if you want to figure that out, sue under this other clause. She says the ruling makes it essentially constitutional for a cop to harass someone as long as he can come up with a pretextual reason for bothering them. "This sort of logic we're describing is the logic underpinning Roe v. Wade"
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