{"id":4165,"date":"2010-05-13T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:22:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment news&#8211;National biometric ID card may pass muster for SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/biometric_id_card_might_be_able_to_pass_muster_in_the_supreme_court\/\">Biometric ID Card Might Be Able to Pass Muster in the Supreme Court<\/a>,  Debra Cassens Weiss, referring to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/05\/09\/US-Supreme-Court-Justices-might-like-national-ID-card\/UPI-66231273391340\/\">UPI.com<\/a> article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPI considers the question and says the justices would likely turn down a constitutional challenge. The story cites the Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 decision in 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/07pdf\/07-21.pdf\">Crawford v. Marion County Election Board<\/a>, in which the justices upheld a law requiring voters to present government-issued IDs. The lead opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens said the law was supported by the valid interest of protecting the electoral process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}