{"id":10251,"date":"2014-01-19T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T10:34:14","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10251","title":{"rendered":"NYT Opinion: Madison\u2019s Privacy Blind Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Opinion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/madisons-privacy-blind-spot.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">Madison\u2019s Privacy Blind Spot<\/a> by Jeffrey Rosejan:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IN his opinion last month regarding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency\u2019s phone-data collection program, Judge Richard Leon wrote that \u201cJames Madison, who cautioned us to beware of \u2018the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power,\u2019 would be aghast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Leon isn\u2019t the only legal mind these days to view Madison as a libertarian icon. Justice Antonin Scalia invoked Madison last spring in his memorable dissent from a Supreme Court opinion upholding the government\u2019s right to collect DNA swabs from suspects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10251\">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-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","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=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}