{"id":21233,"date":"2016-03-13T01:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T06:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21233"},"modified":"2016-03-13T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:13:34","slug":"reason-com-4-things-to-know-about-sri-srinivasan-obamas-potential-nominee-to-replace-scalia-on-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21233","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: 4 Things to Know About Sri Srinivasan, Obama’s Potential Nominee to Replace Scalia on the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reason.com: 4 Things to Know About Sri Srinivasan, Obama’s Potential Nominee to Replace Scalia on the Supreme Court<\/a> by Damon Root:
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… According to multiple reports, Obama is deciding among a shortlist of five candidates. Among those five, one in particular has struck many court watchers as a potential frontrunner. That candidate is Sri Srinivasan, who currently sits as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.<\/p>\n

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Gay Marriage<\/p>\n

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The Obama administration ultimately sided with Edith Windsor in that case. In the March 2013 oral arguments, a key part of the administration’s case against DOMA was argued before the Court by Srinivasan, who was then serving as principal deputy solicitor general.<\/p>\n

For those conservatives who still consider gay marriage to be a fighting issue, Srinivasan’s role in DOMA’s demise may be a factor in a SCOTUS confirmation fight. (That is of course assuming the Senate ends up holding hearings in the first place, something that Senate Republicans are vowing not to do.)<\/p>\n

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures<\/em><\/p>\n

The Fourth Amendment protects “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Yet that textual command did not stop the Obama administration from arguing that law enforcement officials should be allowed to attach a GPS tracking device to a car without first obtaining a warrant. “If you win this case,” Justice Stephen Breyer said to Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben during the November 2011 oral argument in United States v. Jones, “there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States.”<\/p>\n

In the end, the Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration’s position 9-0. “It is important to be clear about what occurred in this case,” declared Justice Antonin Scalia. “The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information. We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been considered a ‘search’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted.”<\/p>\n

Civil libertarians can take heart on this one. Sri Srinivasan was part of the winning legal team that represented Antoine Jones and thereby helped secure this important Fourth Amendment victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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