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Counterpunch<\/a><\/strong>, May 20, 2013<\/div>\n
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Booted for Laughing at Drug War<\/div>\n

My Supreme Court Fashion Felony<\/h1>\n
by JAMES BOVARD<\/div>\n
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In March 1995, I visited the sacred burial ground of Americans\u2019 rights and liberties \u2013 the Supreme Court. Working on an article for\u00a0Playboy<\/i><\/a>, I went to watch lawyers argue a case of great principle and tawdry details. Sharlene Wilson was a repeat offender and former government snitch who had been nailed for two sales of marijuana totaling $105. The state of Arkansas \u2013 which could not afford to pave many of its own roads \u2013 planned to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars incarcerating Wilson for the next 30 years.<\/p>\n

The case reached the Supreme Court because Arkansas police carried out a no-knock raid on her home, during which they discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia. John Wesley Hall, an Arkansas attorney and author of a treatise on the Fourth Amendment, believed the no-knock raid was unconstitutional and petitioned the court to overturn Wilson\u2019s convictions for marijuana possession and paraphernalia. (He did not challenge Wilson\u2019s drug dealing conviction.)<\/p>\n

No-knock raids were routinely carried out by SWAT teams wearing masks and black Ninja outfits and toting submachine guns. The right to violently batter down a front door necessarily included the right to shoot any citizen who tried to stop the police from invading his home. And what did it take to justify government effectively declaring war on its own citizens?<\/p>\n

Flush toilets. Law enforcement agencies were paranoid that the slightest delay in barging in could allow residents to flush away small amounts of drugs. The Clinton administration told the Supreme Court that \u201cif the officers knew that . . . the premises contain no plumbing facilities . . . then invocation of the destruction-of-evidence justification for an unannounced entry would be unreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americans are raised to believe that judicial processes favor truth and fairness, but cravenness is the coin of the realm at the Supreme Court. I watched lawyers grovel before the Justices like slaves trying to avoid a whipping. Some Justices were martinets, interrupting and browbeating disputants to their hearts\u2019 content. When Chief Justice William Rehnquist mocked one lawyer\u2019s assertion, everyone in the house responded with a polite chuckle.<\/p>\n

Hall, who was short, bearded and bespectacled, told the Justices that the \u201cknock and announce\u201d rule for police searches goes back to 1603 in English common law \u2013 before the Mayflower reached these shores. Hall included in his brief to the Court a\u00a0Playboy<\/i>\u00a0piece I wrote -\u201cOops \u2013 You\u2019re Dead<\/a>\u201d \u2013 chronicling cases of innocent people killed in no-knock raids.<\/p>\n

One of the Justices asked Michael Dreeben, the zealous beanpole representing the Justice Department, if the Clinton administration thought that no-knock entries were always justified. Dreeben magnanimously granted two exceptions:\u00a0\u201cif, based on confidential informants, the police know that all the drugs in question are stored in relatively indestructible crates,\u201d and second, if cops were searching for stolen televisions, there \u201cwould be no reason to believe that the occupants would have any means of being able to destroy the televisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall retorted that, according to Dreeben\u2019s logic, \u201cthe more drugs you\u2019ve got, the more right you have to an announcement\u201d prior to a police search.<\/p>\n

I thought that was hilarious. Alas \u2013 my boisterous laugh proved to be a solo performance. All the Justices \u2013 and dang near everybody else in the courtroom \u2013 turned and stared in my direction.<\/p>\n

Being a rube, I did not realize that there were different standards for laughter, depending on whether the jokester was wearing a bat suit.\u00a0 (Admittedly, my laugh has often spooked people and it did spark complaints from children when I worked as a Santa Claus at a Boston Filene\u2019s Department store.)<\/p>\n

Here is how the\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0Al Kamen described what happened next in his \u201cIn the Loop\u201d column:<\/p>\n

Once in Court, His Shirt Lost Its Appeal<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was freelancer James Bovard yesterday in the front row of the press section at the Supreme Court minding his own business: on assignment from\u00a0Playboy<\/em>\u00a0magazine to cover oral arguments in a case about whether police officers with warrants must knock before entering a home.<\/p>\n

About 15 minutes into the argument, a court police officer approached Bovard and told him to move to a rear alcove.<\/p>\n

Seems Bovard had violated a Supreme Court rule \u2014 one that veteran reporters had never seen enforced \u2014 that asks the press sitting in the first two rows of the reserved section to follow the same dress code as those in the section reserved for the bar: coats and ties, general business attire.<\/p>\n

It could not be learned whether the court police acted on their own or were prompted by a displeased justice.<\/p>\n

A miffed Bovard says it\u2019s not like he had on a T-shirt or anything. It was a light blue, striped, \u201cfancy business shirt\u201d that was from \u201cLord & Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe he should try Brooks Brothers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the hearing concluded, I had briefly returned to the press room. Several reporters who regularly covered the Court asked what I\u2019d been told when I got the heave-ho. The\u00a0Post<\/i>\u00a0reporter mentioned the episode to Kamen, who gave me a ring. I explained that my laugh had drawn the attention that sparked the eject. However, my response to his attire question provided a better story.<\/p>\n

After reading about the incident in the\u00a0Post,<\/i>\u00a0Nancy Dunne, a friend who wrote for the\u00a0Financial Times<\/i>, called and asked if I felt terribly embarrassed about the episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cHell no \u2013 I wasn\u2019t responsible for that stupid rule,\u201d I replied. If people feel guilty about violating arcane, secret edicts, government agents can always subdue them by pulling out a rule book and pronouncing them \u201cguilty.\u201d The real problem was that I wasn\u2019t permitted to summon police to haul away any Justice who voted to uphold some tyrannical federal policy.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court reached a new low in constitutional depravity the following year when it upheld the city of Detroit\u2019s confiscation of a Pontiac jointly owned by a married couple after police caught the husband, John Bennis, getting tooted by a prostitute on the front seat. There was never any evidence that the wife had consented to the use of their vehicle for a dalliance. But the Clinton administration implied in a court brief that Tina Bennis was complicit because she failed to take \u201call reasonable steps\u201d to prevent the illegal use of the vehicle. Since she had not hired a detective to stalk her husband, she had no right to complain about losing the car. Chief Justice Rehnquist based his decision on an 1827 case involving the seizure of a Spanish pirate ship that had attacked U.S. ships.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, Rehnquist did not deign to explain the legal equivalence of piracy in the 1820s and contemporary fellatio. The forfeiture was justified as a way to curb prostitution; but, since police interrupted before she finished and was paid, Bennis was actually convicted only for \u201cgross indecency.\u201d This is a charge that any overheated teenage couple parking on Lovers Lane could face. The court\u2019s ruling was so broad that even a married couple who stopped on some desolate dead-end street for a quickie (solely for the purposes of procreation) could lose their car.\u00a0 I lampooned the decision in a\u00a0Playboy<\/i>\u00a0piece titled \u201cBlown Away<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006), Lost Rights: Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin\u2019s, 1994), and a new e-book memoir,\u00a0Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>.<\/em>\"PPH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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