WASHINGTON – It is rare enough for the U.S. Supreme Court to make headlines when it is not deciding big cases. Rarer still for it to make news when it has decided not to decide a case. But last week marked an exception, because Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. took the unusual step of issuing a public dissent from the Court’s denial of review, or certiorari, in Virginia v. Harris, a drunken-driving case.
The case was a challenge to a Virginia Supreme Court decision that police must witness dangerous driving themselves before they can pull over a driver, and that an anonymous tip about the driver is not enough.
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