No Fries For You!

If this is any indication of his legal prowess, let's just board the stuck on stupid train now.

"On the Supreme Court, John G. Roberts would be called on to deal with some of the loftiest issues of U.S. jurisprudence. During his career in Washington, D.C., he ruled on a case that hinged on one of the simplest of human actions: the eating of a single french fry.

Last October, Roberts spoke for the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia in the case of the girl who was arrested at the age of 12 after she was seen popping a french fry into her mouth in a Metro station.

Roberts, writing for himself and two other judges, upheld the constitutionality of the Oct. 23, 2000, arrest of Ansche Hedgepeth. Her encounter with the Metro Transit Police drew national attention and was frequently condemned as an example of law enforcement excess. The policy that led to her being handcuffed was later changed.

While upholding the legality of the Metro police action, Roberts showed that he did not necessarily give it his personal stamp of approval.

'A 12-year-old girl was arrested, searched and handcuffed,' he wrote. 'Her shoelaces were removed and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted and detained until released to the custody of her mother, some three hours later � all for eating a single french fry in a Metro rail station.'

However, Roberts wrote, the question that came before him was not whether Metro's policies on enforcing a rule of no eating in its transit system were a good idea. What came before him on an appeal was whether Metro's policies violated Ansche's constitutional rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

The Court of Appeals, he wrote, concluded that they did not."

Did the Bush twins get handcuffed and arrested for attempting to use fake id's to buy alcohol?