A federal court decided today that out of the thousands of arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, a good number of them were made without probable cause. Guilt by association, Judge Richard Sullivan ruled, doesn’t cut it, and the mass-fingerprinting of arrested demonstrators wasn’t legal either. “With this ruling, the time has come for the city to put this controversy behind it, to settle the rest of the Convention cases, and to make sure that mass arrests never happen again here,” said a lawyer for the NYCLU. Thank you, swift justice.
