Criminal Justices

Dahlia Lithwick does the absolute best reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court these days. Her most recent breakdown of a couple criminal cases recently before the Court is worth a read.

Beyond the style of the piece, the substance is equally attention getting. It's in the matter of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that "sliding scale" is an apt metaphor. Any analyst of the Court's work in this area always finds themselves asking where the facts put you on the metaphorical scale? In the King case discussed in Lithwick's column, it seems the Court finds itself considering allowing the police to put their heavy hand on the scale and create exigencies out of idiocies.