{"id":15858,"date":"2015-02-11T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15858"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:49:42","slug":"slate-the-chief-justice-has-never-been-pulled-over-in-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15858","title":{"rendered":"Slate: The Chief Justice Has Never Been Pulled Over in His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2015\/02\/chief_justice_john_roberts_has_never_been_pulled_over_rodriguez_v_united.html\">The Chief Justice Has Never Been Pulled Over in His Life<\/a> by Cristian Farias<\/p>\n<p>Why John Roberts\u2019 naivet\u00e9 matters to anyone who cares about policing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And judging from how oral arguments in Rodriguez played out, you have reason to worry about how the justices will rule. Because for an hour, they grappled, interrupted one another, suggested potential rules, posed lengthy hypotheticals, and in the end couldn\u2019t seem to reach any consensus on how to decide the case. Viewed charitably, the hearing was a hot mess.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent confusion in the courtroom was useful in one respect: It illuminated the cluelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts when it comes to traffic stops. Addressing the lawyer who was representing Dennys Rodriguez, the petitioner in the case, Roberts said, \u201cUsually, people have told me, when you\u2019re stopped, the officer says, \u2018License and registration.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: The Chief Justice Has Never Been Pulled Over in His Life by Cristian Farias Why John Roberts\u2019 naivet\u00e9 matters to anyone who cares about policing. And judging from how oral arguments in Rodriguez played out, you have reason to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15858\">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-15858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858","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=15858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15859,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions\/15859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}