Arrested for burping: The Gorsuch dissent

Remember when a 13-year-old Albuquerque boy was arrested – taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center – for fake burping in P.E. class? His mother sued, but the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in favor of the school district in July 2016. Judge Neil Gorsuch, now a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote a memorable dissent , reprinted in Valerie Strauss’s Washington Post column.