Ethics

Virtual Martial Law in D.C.

By Ed Brayton

This is absolutely outrageous. The police in Washington DC are cordoning off whole neighborhoods, checking every car going in, demanding ID from every person and threatening to arrest them if they don't comply. I love this part of the article:

But Lanier said the plan has passed muster with other top law enforcement officials in the District -- it was vetted by the U.S. attorney's office, and Interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said his office also approved the program.

Well, if the Bush administration says it's constitutional, who could argue with that? As Volokh says, there's no way in hell this is constitutional.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).