{"id":4228,"date":"2010-05-28T22:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T22:03:59","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4228","title":{"rendered":"Daily Princetonian: Kagan &#8217;81 on the exclusionary rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Princetonian: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailyprincetonian.com\/2010\/05\/kagan-81-masters-thesis-in-politics.html\">Kagan &#8217;81: Master&#8217;s thesis in politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares for the upcoming confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan, senators have been poring through thousands of pages documenting many of Kagan\u2019s legal and political views. Among those pages, the New York Times reports , is her Master\u2019s thesis in politics, written at Oxford in 1983, in which she discussed the history of the exclusionary rule (an element of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence) to advance an argument about how courts should go about effecting social change. <\/p>\n<p>The thesis is particularly interesting because it comments on the issue of judicial activism\u2014the charge leveled by judicial conservatives that the rulings of liberals on the bench have been guided not by legal principles, but instead by judges\u2019 personal political preferences. Kagan\u2019s argument in the thesis offers fodder to both sides of the debate. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4228\">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-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}