{"id":10056,"date":"2013-12-23T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:03:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10056","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC: How Sotomayor undermined Obama\u2019s NSA [clearly an overstatement]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/how-sotomayor-undermined-obamas-nsa\">How Sotomayor undermined Obama\u2019s NSA<\/a> by Adam Serwer<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Edward Snowden gave federal courts the means to declare the National Security Agency\u2019s data-gathering unconstitutional, Sonia Sotomayor showed them how. <\/p>\n<p>It was Sotomayor\u2019s lonely concurrence in U.S. v Jones, a case involving warrantless use of a GPS tracker on a suspect\u2019s car, that the George W. Bush-appointed Judge Richard Leon relied on when he ruled that the program was likely unconstitutional last week. It was that same concurrence the White House appointed review board on surveillance policy cited when it concluded government surveillance should be scaled back. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties,\u201d Sotomayor wrote in 2012. \u201cThis approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like she&#8217;s the only one to have thought this before that? Come on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}