{"id":11391,"date":"2014-05-03T05:23:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11391"},"modified":"2014-05-03T05:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T10:23:13","slug":"scotusblog-commentary-from-the-bench-to-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11391","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSBlog: Commentary: From the bench to the podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: <a href=\"SCOTUSBlog: Commentary: From the bench to the podium\">Commentary: From the bench to the podium<\/a> by Lyle Denniston: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In ways large and small, the idealized expectation that the Supreme Court will stay outside the political arena continues to diminish in a country with polarized partisanship and fragmented cultural values.  One reason is that those on opposite sides of the divide increasingly seek to use the Court to advance their own agendas &#8211; and, increasingly, succeed at it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: Commentary: From the bench to the podium by Lyle Denniston: In ways large and small, the idealized expectation that the Supreme Court will stay outside the political arena continues to diminish in a country with polarized partisanship and fragmented &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11392,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions\/11392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}