{"id":31430,"date":"2018-01-20T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T12:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31430"},"modified":"2018-01-20T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:22:31","slug":"volokh-conspiracy-the-challenge-of-fourth-amendment-originalism-and-the-positive-law-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31430","title":{"rendered":"Volokh Conspiracy: The Challenge of Fourth Amendment Originalism and the Positive Law Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/01\/19\/what-is-fourth-amendment-originalism\">The Challenge of Fourth Amendment Originalism and the Positive Law Test<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n<p>If the Positive Law test is originalist, then what isn&#8217;t? A close look at Fourth Amendment history and some recent scholarship.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My friend and co-blogger Will Baude argued recently that his <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.harvardlawreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1821-1889-Online.pdf\">Positive Law test of the Fourth Amendment<\/a> is an originalist approach. I find that position intriguing, in part because it brings up the difficulty of identifying what it means for a view of the Fourth Amendment to be originalist. It seems to me that if the Positive Law test of searches is originalist, then all of my writings on what is a Fourth Amendment search are also originalist, or at least are perfectly consistent with originalism. Indeed, I have a hard time thinking of any proposed Fourth Amendment search tests that aren&#8217;t consistent with originalism. And most of them seem more plausibly correct from an originalist perspective than the Positive Law test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volokh Conspiracy: The Challenge of Fourth Amendment Originalism and the Positive Law Test by Orin Kerr: If the Positive Law test is originalist, then what isn&#8217;t? A close look at Fourth Amendment history and some recent scholarship.<\/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-31430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430","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=31430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31441,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions\/31441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}