No more Breyers.
from the page. “Do not be soothed by the opinion’s technical language,” she wrote. “This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification, and check it for outstanding traffic warrants—even if you are doing nothing wrong…. [It] tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time. It says that your body is subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights.
To be fair, Breyer’s record on criminal justice issues like these is far removed from his reputation in some other fields, like voting rights and reproductive freedom, where he was a reliable vote for progressive causes and values. But even in those domains, one would be hard pressed to find a case where he wrote with the kind of moral and legal clarity that Sotomayor displayed in
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