Get ready for the fireworks!

Oh my, but this is precious:

A twelve-year-old girl was
arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were
removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear
compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing
center, where she was booked, fingerprinted, and detained
until released to her mother some three hours later — all for
eating a single french fry in a D.C. Metrorail station. The child
was frightened, embarrassed, and crying throughout the ordeal.
The district court described the policies that led to her
arrest as ‘‘foolish,’’ and indeed the policies were changed after
those responsible endured the sort of publicity reserved for
adults who make young girls cry. (TOTH to Hugh Hewitt)

And the court affirmed.

Precious, because the Left may try to use this case to paint Judge John Roberts (who wrote the 3-0 opinion in the Hedgepeth case for the DC Court of Appeals) as a mean-spirited, heartless, intrusive, misogynist threat to American citizen's rights and civil liberties. Especially so, of course to: women and children, minorities, the poor and underclass, "workers", and the environment. "Round up the usual suspects", as it were...

But, as is often the case, the facts in the matter (I hope you tried the above link; you DO want to have an informed opinion on the matter, don't you? It's not a hard read, luckily.) stand in stark contrast to the knee-jerk emotion prompted by the first-glance. The facts make it clear that the DC court made the right decision in affirming the "foolish arrest" of Ansche Hedgepeth.
(A quick aside: The case also demonstrates the problems all-too common with "zero-tolerance" rules, e.g.: a butter knife left in a car in a school parking lot violates a "zero-tolerance" weapons ban.)

The Hedgepeth case, on the other hand, may not be complicated and intricate enough for Lefties Schumer, Kennedy, Leahy, Feinstein, and Durbin to contort and exploit.

The Rust v. Sullivan case, however, will probably get plenty of review and distortion. Most assuredly this particular line from a brief (of which, Roberts was one of eight authors) for the case:

"We continue to believe that [Roe v. Wade] was wrongly decided and should be overruled."


Them's fightin' words, to pro-aborts!
As Colonel Blacker said: "Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!"

Brad