{"id":33556,"date":"2018-06-25T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33556"},"modified":"2018-06-24T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T01:33:49","slug":"slate-sotomayor-fourth-amendment-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33556","title":{"rendered":"Slate: Sotomayor, Fourth Amendment Visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/06\/in-carpenter-v-united-states-the-supreme-court-vindicates-justice-sonia-sotomayors-theory-of-digital-privacy.html\">Sotomayor, Fourth Amendment Visionary<\/a> by Mark Joseph Stern<\/p>\n<p>How the Supreme Court vindicated the justice\u2019s prescient theory of digital privacy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can the government access records of your cellphone\u2019s location history over a period of weeks, months, even years, without obtaining a warrant? On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled forcefully that it cannot in Carpenter v. United States, perhaps the most important Fourth Amendment decision of the 21st century so far. Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 majority opinion\u2014joined only by the court\u2019s liberals in a 5\u20134 ruling\u2014has been widely praised for putting real constitutional limits on the modern surveillance state. But Roberts\u2019 decision drew heavily from ideas put forth by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a prescient concurring opinion six years ago. Indeed, Carpenter might not have been possible had Sotomayor not already laid the groundwork for a dramatic expansion of digital privacy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: Sotomayor, Fourth Amendment Visionary by Mark Joseph Stern How the Supreme Court vindicated the justice\u2019s prescient theory of digital privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33556","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=33556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33559,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33556\/revisions\/33559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}