] It's against the law for police to set up narcotics
] checkpoints to check whether any randomly passing
] motorists happen to have illegal drugs.
]
] But it's not illegal for the police to pretend that's
] what they're doing, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled
] Thursday.

I think this is seriously suspect. What is the difference between this activity and a real search checkpoint? That the suspect was pulled over for littering? You have to have a serious problem contemplating the big picture to fall for such an arguement. The intent of the forth amendment is to prevent the police from randomly sweeping people in search of crimes they can prosecute. The intent of this operation is to randomly sweep motorists in search of crimes to prosecute. This is, frankly, obvious.

This ruling should be overturned, and this judge should be removed.