{"id":29018,"date":"2017-09-01T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29018"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:41:25","slug":"reason-com-in-warrantless-cellphone-search-case-its-the-trump-administration-vs-the-4th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29018","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: In Warrantless Cellphone Search Case, It&#8217;s the Trump Administration vs. the 4th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/in-warrantless-cellphone-search-case-its\">In Warrantless Cellphone Search Case, It&#8217;s the Trump Administration vs. the 4th Amendment<\/a> by Damon Root:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments sometime in its coming term in one of the most significant Fourth Amendment cases in years.<\/p>\n<p>At issue in Carpenter v. United States is the question of whether the FBI violated the Fourth Amendment when it obtained, without a search warrant, the cellphone records of suspected armed robber Timothy Carpenter. With those records, federal officials identified the cell towers that handled the suspect&#8217;s calls and then proceeded to trace back his whereabouts during the time periods in which his alleged crimes were committed. That information was later used against Carpenter in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration strongly urged the Supreme Court not to hear this case. Why? Because &#8220;a person has no Fourth Amendment interest in records created by a communications-service provider in the ordinary course of business that pertain to the individual&#8217;s transactions with the service provider,&#8221; the administration told the Court in its brief in opposition to the petition for certiorari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: In Warrantless Cellphone Search Case, It&#8217;s the Trump Administration vs. the 4th Amendment by Damon Root:<\/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-29018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018","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=29018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29019,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions\/29019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}