{"id":17271,"date":"2015-05-16T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2015-05-16T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:55:10","slug":"wapo-the-supreme-courts-fourth-amendment-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17271","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Supreme Court\u2019s Fourth Amendment irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/05\/16\/the-supreme-courts-fourth-amendment-irrelevance\/\">The Supreme Court\u2019s Fourth Amendment irrelevance<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, fellow Post blogger Orin Kerr put up a post arguing that contrary to what you may commonly read, on Fourth Amendment cases the Supreme Court usually is as likely to rule against the government as in favor of it.<\/p>\n<p>He makes a convincing argument. But I think there\u2019s another factor we need to consider: In the real world, the decisions that uphold Fourth Amendment rights often don\u2019t matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Supreme Court\u2019s Fourth Amendment irrelevance by Radley Balko: A few weeks ago, fellow Post blogger Orin Kerr put up a post arguing that contrary to what you may commonly read, on Fourth Amendment cases the Supreme Court usually &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17271\">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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","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=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17272,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions\/17272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}