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But reporters can always find pretexts of one kind or another: that the person is a hypocrite, is lying about it, is doing it on government time, or--the old standby--that the issue raises questions of "character."
Judges have upheld traffic stops that are mere pretexts for searches and erected evidentiary boundaries to ending profiling.