Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Wednesday, July 20, 2005


Judge Roberts wrote the opinion for the Appeals Court in the infamous “French fry in the Metro station” case, in which a 12-year-old girl was handcuffed, stripped of her shoelaces and shoved into a windowless van because she at a McDonald’s fry at a Metro stop.

The idiocy of the Metro cops here in DC is well-known, and we Metro riders are heartened by the fact that Judge Roberts suggested in his opinion that the police were a bit overzealous. At the same time, Judge Roberts and his fellow jurists rejected the 12-year-old’s claim that being arrested in the first place was a violation of her Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Judge Roberts sided with those who argued that the District of Columbia has the right to have dopey, draconian laws and the right to enforce them in embarrassingly ham-fisted ways.

That’s good news all around.


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