N.Y. As a result, the drug dealers could go free. Curiouser and curiouser. The severity of the rulings of judges and others in authority varies inversely with the importance of what is being judged. Smooching is a suspendable offense, but bringing a loaded gun to school is not. And the security of law-abiding citizens takes second place to the rights of criminals.
Truth is superseded by the small print.
A school spokeswoman in North Carolina said that they were just following policy. The Bronx Family Court judge said that the bulky .45 caliber semi-automatic weapon did not cause a suspicious enough bulge in the student's pants pocket to warrant searching him. Baer was shamed into reversing his ruling, whereupon a cry went up in the land about the constitutional need to protect judges' independence. In fact, throughout American history, judges' decisions have been protested without their independence being threatened. And there has been plenty to protest.