{"id":27853,"date":"2017-06-30T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27853"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T23:18:20","slug":"grits-for-breakfast-blog-pretext-stops-subvert-public-trust-undermine-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27853","title":{"rendered":"Grits for Breakfast Blog: Pretext stops subvert public trust, undermine rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grits for Breakfast Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/pretext-stops-subvert-public-trust.html\">Pretext stops subvert public trust, undermine rule of law<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A law that everyone routinely violates because of its arbitrariness and impracticality becomes a path for the government to bypass 4th Amendment protections. Police can simply follow anyone they choose for a few minutes and wait for a signal less than 100 feet before a turn. Then they get a supposedly legal if objectively dubious basis to conduct a roadside search.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grits for Breakfast Blog: Pretext stops subvert public trust, undermine rule of law A law that everyone routinely violates because of its arbitrariness and impracticality becomes a path for the government to bypass 4th Amendment protections. Police can simply follow &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27853\">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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853","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=27853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27854,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853\/revisions\/27854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}