Posts Tagged → Massachusetts
Massachusetts: Marijuana odor not enough
Massachusetts has never been a state known widely for common sense. After all, they elect just about anyone named Kennedy without question. Even having the first couple letters of one’s last name is close enough, right John Kerry? But things have definitely taken a turn for the worse.
The state’s Supreme Court recently decided that detecting “the smell of burning marijuana” was “not enough for police to suspect a person of criminal activity and order them out of a car.”
Say what? Maybe even the presence of plant stands in the back seat wouldn’t be enough, at that rate.
Massachusetts State Supreme Court Chief Justice wrote, “We conclude that, to order a passenger in a stopped vehicle to exit based merely on suspicion of an offense, that offense must be criminal.”
The ruling was a shocking 5-1 majority.
Someone send the sole dissenter a gift basket, quick!
Brown up on Coakley
Today, Massachusetts will hold an election to fill the vacant Senate seat once filled by the late Teddy Kennedy, and it appears that a Republican may have a chance to not only win the seat in liberal Massachusetts, but could go on to take away the Dems’ filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That could help stop the ObamaCare plan that looks to imperil the nation’s budget, as well as its quality of care.
According to RealClearPolitics, Brown currently leads Democrat Coakley by nine points. In liberal Massachusetts. Wow. Of course, it helps that Brown is talking issues while Coakley is mumbling something about handing out Nordic Track promotion codes or some such nonsense.
Levity aside, a nine-point lead could be enough to put Brown beyond the margin of error; all eyes will be on Massachusetts over the next 24 hours or so.
