{"id":25002,"date":"2016-12-24T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25002"},"modified":"2016-12-24T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:37:26","slug":"lawfare-the-surprisingly-weak-reasoning-of-mohamud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25002","title":{"rendered":"LawFare: The Surprisingly Weak Reasoning of Mohamud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LawFare: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/surprisingly-weak-reasoning-mohamud\">The Surprisingly Weak Reasoning of Mohamud<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a recent post here at Lawfare, April Doss argues that the Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision in United States v. Mohamud \u201cgot it right.\u201d In her view, the critics of the decision\u2014myself included\u2014are just wrong.  I disagree.  Here\u2019s why I think the reasoning of the decision is hard to defend.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst, an important caveat: My argument is about reasoning and not result. A lot of discussion on Mohamud focuses on the bottom line of which side won.  That\u2019s understandable, but it\u2019s not my concern. My concern is whether the reasoning of the case makes sense as a matter of Fourth Amendment law.<\/p>\n<p>When viewed from that perspective, Mohamud strikes me as awkward and unconvincing.  Its core holding is weak and hard to square with Supreme Court doctrine.  Other parts of it border on the incoherent. And it could have reached its result much more easily without the conceptual wrong turns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LawFare: The Surprisingly Weak Reasoning of Mohamud by Orin Kerr: In a recent post here at Lawfare, April Doss argues that the Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision in United States v. Mohamud \u201cgot it right.\u201d In her view, the critics of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25002\">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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25002","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=25002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25003,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25002\/revisions\/25003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}