Ever since the Supreme Court declared that “pretextual stops” are constitutional, police have increased their rate of stopping drivers for minor or imagined violations of traffic codes in order to perform drug searches, warrant checks and so forth. They don’t need reasonable suspicion to run those checks after they’ve stopped you, even if the stop was based on a transparent pretext.

When you get behind the wheel of a car, you effectively surrender a significant portion of your right to privacy.

I don’t suppose anybody would be shocked to know that pretextual stops in the United States are overwhelmingly and disproportionately directed against Black people and other people of color. I don’t know if that’s what happened in this case, but it could be.

Will Trump go to prison? He’s clearly broken laws regulating taxes and finance, much more serious crimes than what your brother would have committed even if he hadn’t paid the rent.

Rich white men almost never go to prison for financial crimes, even when the crimes are blatant. So I’ve got my fingers crossed here, but I don’t have a lot of hope, to be honest.