…that Justice Steven H. David still needs to be removed from office in November.*
Because he still doesn’t get it.
Justices supporting the decision wrote that the ruling was supposed to mean that people don’t have the right to commit battery against a police officers acting in their course of duty.
“Our earlier opinion was not intended to, and did not, change that existing law about the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, and papers against unreasonable searches and seizures,” David wrote in the ruling issued today.
And apparently neither do three of the other four Indiana Supremes who voted with him to uphold this 4-1 travesty of the United States Constitution.
In any case this is bullshit. To the IMPD et al.: If you no-knock my house in the middle of the night, be prepared for a 12-gauge welcome. Because the issue in a nutshell is that, absent some kind of an announcement, I don’t know who the fuck you are, and you’re going to be treated just like any random hoodlum who breaks and enters.
* Actually, I think that’s November, 2012. Indiana Supreme Court Justices serve a minimum of two years after being appointed before facing a retention election. David took office in October, 2010.
Aw, hell. I’ll do a write-in (write out?) if the question doesn’t come up this Fall.