{"id":1674,"date":"2011-05-26T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T05:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2011-05-26T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T05:07:35","slug":"what-happened-to-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To The  Fourth Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/25\/home-insecurity\">Reason.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said the &#8220;exigent circumstances&#8221; that exist when someone might be flushing drugs down a toilet allow police to enter a home without a warrant, even if their own actions create those circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As stated in the lone dissenting opinion by Justice Ginsberg: &#8221; The Court today arms the police with a way routinely to dishonor the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s warrant requirement in drug cases. In lieu of presenting their evidence to a neutral magistrate, police officers may now knock, listen, then break the door down, nevermind that they had ample time to obtain a warrant. I dissent from the Court&#8217;s reduction of the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s force.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat are the people to do when the Supreme Court won&#8217;t uphold the Constitution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reason.com: Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said the &#8220;exigent circumstances&#8221; that exist when someone might be flushing drugs down a toilet allow police to enter a home without a warrant, even if their own actions create those circumstances. As stated in the lone dissenting opinion by Justice Ginsberg: &#8221; The Court today arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[102,66,74,91,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}