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...Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan contributed to the reporting of this story...
...v. [English] 1. to place 2. to apply for putain n. [French] whore, hooker poutine n. [French Canadian] fries covered with gravy and melted cheese curds putten v. [Dutch] to draw putina n. [Russian] fishing season putan n. [Albanian] 1. hornless 2. whore
...that have increased police discretion and permitted law enforcement agents to circumvent the spirit of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment's assurance of equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver...
...kind of articulable suspicion police officers needed to have to conduct a search. As long as they are willing to arrest the suspect for any minor violation they can find, the Supreme Court have been given police too much room to use racial profiling. Another case, U.S. v. Weaver, made race an acceptable part of the articulable suspicion required for a Drug Enforcement Agency deputy to stop a nervous-looking suspected drug-courier in an airport when flying from a source city and purchasing his ticket with cash. Utilizing race as an acceptable component of an officer's decision...
Before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education, the idea of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for different groups (generally blacks and whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a less enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just...