DWI Roadblock case to Supreme Court

[lordmetroid]

but if you are a felon then you can't vote so how is that a 'right'?

You lose your right to liberty and pursuit of happiness by due process of law ( ) when you're convicted of a felony and sent to prison, along with your right to keep and bear arms and your right to vote in many states.It's all part of the punishment.

In Sweden convicts votes from within prisons. They are affected by the decisions as anybody else. It just ain't right how USA's suffrage system is set. I like to let everyone to vote but at the same time it feels like the uneducated would ruin it all if they are let. Nowdays the system is swamped with uneducated people.

[burnthebeautiful]

The government is going to decide if what the government is doing should be allowed. Gee, I wonder what the answer will be.

[Atlas]

Michigan is another state that has banned DWI checkpts. I don't see why NH can't be the same.

[Spencer]

Yeah, the irony of the Diltz case is that it originated out of Michigan, and the parties sought review by the U.S. Supreme Court of federal constitutional (4th Amendment) law regarding checkpoints.  On remand to the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Supreme Court held that the Michigan Constitution's equivalent of the 4th Amendment prohibits such checkpoints.

All that NH needs is a new law (groan) to be passed making it illegal for any law enforcment / government agency to utilize checkpoints (or, less likely to succeed, a state constitutional amendment -- or an argument to the NH Supremes that the NH Constitution already prohibits such warrantless seizures and searches).