From Law360 authored by Ed Beeson:
“The solicitor general from Utah had just started his argument when he uttered the words ‘an objectively reasonable miscalculation.’
Almost on a dime, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stopped him.
‘Tell me what was objectively reasonable about it,’ she said, referring to an unlawful police stop at the heart of a case, Utah v. Strieff, before the U.S. Supreme Court.
It was Feb. 22, 2016, the first day of arguments after Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly died. A mere 45 seconds had passed since Chief Justice John Roberts cued the start of the second oral argument of the day, and Justice Sotomayor, who had deep concerns about the case’s implications for the right against unreasonable search and seizure, quickly dominated the crossfire.”
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