{"id":12212,"date":"2014-06-25T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12212"},"modified":"2014-06-25T07:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:34:03","slug":"sayanythingblog-expert-john-doe-raids-raise-troubling-fourth-amendment-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12212","title":{"rendered":"sayanythingblog: Expert: John Doe raids raise \u2018troubling\u2019 Fourth Amendment questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sayanythingblog: <a href=\"http:\/\/sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/expert-john-doe-raids-raise-troubling-fourth-amendment-questions\/\">Expert: John Doe raids raise \u2018troubling\u2019 Fourth Amendment questions<\/a> by M.D. Kittle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MADISON, Wis. \u2013 Troubling.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how one Fourth Amendment expert describes the manner in which search warrants were executed in a politically charged John Doe investigation into dozens of conservative groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me somewhat absurd if what (investigators) were looking for were campaign finance violations,\u201d Robert M. Bloom, professor of law at Boston College Law School, said of the predawn searches and seizures at the homes of targeted conservatives in a nearly two-year-old probe critics say is rife with civil rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>UNREASONABLE SEARCH? A civil right lawsuit against prosecutors in a politically charged John Doe investigation has raised serious Fourth Amendment questions about raids on homes of conservative targets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sayanythingblog: Expert: John Doe raids raise \u2018troubling\u2019 Fourth Amendment questions by M.D. Kittle: MADISON, Wis. \u2013 Troubling. That\u2019s how one Fourth Amendment expert describes the manner in which search warrants were executed in a politically charged John Doe investigation into &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12212\">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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212","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=12212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12213,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}