Sotomayor’s blistering SCOTUS dissent warns America is turning into a prison state Travis Gettys Tra

[riversedge]

Source: rawstory.com




Sotomayor’s blistering SCOTUS dissent warns America is turning into a prison state
Travis Gettys

20 Jun 2016 at 14:18 ET


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Sotomayor said the court’s ruling had essentially classified all Americans as inmates in the prison-industrial complex.

“By legitimizing the conduct that produces this double consciousness, this case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time,” Sotomayor wrote. “It says that your body is subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights. It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.”

She said the court had ignored mountains of evidence that police routinely harass some Americans with unreasonable searches — and she warned that legitimizing those stops undermined democracy.

“We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are ‘isolated,'” Sotomayor wrote. “They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere.............

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[libdem4life]

1. She is such a class act...and accurate, as well.

[appal_jack]

7. Yes, in so many ways she is even better than I'd hoped. K&R, nt.

[BootinUp]

2. I need to read the whole thing, but from what I have seen

she really slammed the majority and righteously so.

[riversedge]

4. It is included at the link. I started but bookmarked for later.

[cstanleytech]

3. Not sure this belongs in LBN since its an opinion by Sotomayor unless of course the LBN

rules have changed and opinion pieces are now ok in which case nevermind

[riversedge]

5. It is news from a Supreme Court decision--And the court dissent is included at the link.

[cstanleytech]

8. Well then it does break LBN as a duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141495020

[riversedge]

9. No, the OP focus is not the dissent part of the decison. They are separate.

[cstanleytech]

10. Its a sub thread of the same topic, providing a link in the other thread maintains he forum

with atleast a modicum of order and prevents cluttering the forum with mutliple threads that are essentially about the same topic.
If this had been posted say next month or even next week it might not break LBN about duplicates though it might break it about opinion pieces.

[riversedge]

12. It is not the same topic. The OP has a different focus.

[cstanleytech]

13. Well I guess opinion pieces are allowed then in LBN my apologies.

[riversedge]

14. Since it is not an opinion piece, looks like it can stay. Have a great evening

[chapdrum]

6. Isn't that the idea, though?

We've allowed an apparently lucrative for-profit prison system to establish "itself."

And now, the shareholders have grown accustomed to their amoral dividends.

And so, it becomes, in effect, yet another immutable law of nature; now that we have them, we are helpless to stop them.