Special Announcement: Our friend and guiding light for the War on Cars Watch, James C. Walker, the NMA Foundation Executive Director, and staunch advocate of motorists everywhere, has died. He will be sorely missed with his always unique angle in his commentary on this very blog. To learn more about his life, click HERE. __________________________________________________________________ […]
38 Blog Posts From the FOURTH AMENDMENT Tag
War on Cars Watch for August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019
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Auto Industry, Bicycle, CELL PHONE, Complete Streets, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, E-Scooters, FOURTH AMENDMENT, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, LICENSE PLATE, Mass Transit, NMA, OOIDA, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, SAFETY, Scooters, Speed Limits, Technology, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, TRAFFIC STOP, VISION ZERO, VMT
ATE Racket Report for June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019
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ALPR, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Facial Recognition, FOURTH AMENDMENT, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Traps, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TRAFFIC CAMERA, VISION ZERO
The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion. Compiled by NMA Foundation Director James C. Walker and NMA Communications Director Shelia Dunn. Headlines are from June 8-14, 2019 Texas Lawmaker Introduces […]
Motorists in Court—Latest Court Case Updates from Around the Country: NMA E-Newsletter #544
June 17, 2019
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BLOOD WITHDRAWAL, DUI/DWI, FOURTH AMENDMENT, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
Under the Influence of the Justice System – A Father’s Story
May 31, 2019
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BAC, Civil Forfeiture, Driver's License, DUI, Fifth Amendment, FOURTH AMENDMENT, INSURANCE, Policing for Profit
By an NMA Member This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #519 on December 23, 2019 This is a story about my twenty-year-old son. To some readers this may be an article that smacks of stupidity and privilege. It may be that both are true but the real point is how hopelessly out […]
From Canada, With Love
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March 5, 2019
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DUI/DWI, Eric Peters, Fifth Amendment, FOURTH AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL SEARCH, SAFETY, TRAFFIC STOP
One thing inevitably follows the next — if the first thing is tolerated. When the Supreme Court, America’s unelected legislative body, created an exception (several, actually) to the Fourth Amendment’s clear and definite prohibition of searches without having first established probable cause and without a specific warrant, the Fourth Amendment became a functional nullity — […]
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