Prometheus 6   

You know you're rightwing when...

The Rehnquist Court unanimously overturns a ruling and thinks your decision was so obviously bad that they issue an unsigned opinion making fun of you for being too rightwing.

The top Texas Court endorsed this theory on the idea that the teenager should have realized he was free to go at any time, because "a reasonable person" in his position "would not believe that being put in handcuffs was a significant restriction on his freedom of movement" and since the teen did not struggle with the police, he obviously thought being in jail was fine with him.

As the unanimous US Supreme Court stated in ridiculing the Texas court:

Contrary to the the state court's view, the opinion said, "a group of police officers rousing an adolescent out of bed in the middle of the night with the words 'we need to go and talk' presents no option but 'to go.' "

"As for the lack of resistance," the court added, "failure to struggle with a cohort of deputy sheriffs is not a waiver of Fourth Amendment protection, which does not require the perversity of resisting arrest or assaulting a police officer."

Now remember, this Texas group is the Court where most of the members think Priscilla Owens, Bush's newest crazy nominee, is too rightwing for them. So Owens is the wackjob rightwing of a wackjob rightwing court, many of whose members were appointed by Dubya when he was governor.