Robert Banks, III v. United States
1. Should Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), be overruled for permitting
unconstitutional detentions of Black Americans and people-of-color for no reason, pretextual reasons or fabricated reasons and thereby facilitating racial profiling and
discrimination in violation of the Fourth Amendment's promise to protect all against
unreasonable searches and seizures?
2. Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion, which upheld the frisk, arrest and prolonged detention
of Petitioner Banks absent reasonable suspicion or probable cause, violate this Court's
precedent in Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), and Knowles v. Iowa, 525
US. 113 (1998)?
3. Should this Court revisit Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), which reduced
the quantum of evidence necessary to prove a conspiracy to commit crimes through a
pattern of racketeering, rendering Title 18 U.S.C. §1962(d) overbroad, vague and
therefore susceptible to arbitrary enforcement as evidenced by the discriminatory
application of RICO to people of color?
Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination?