{"id":5685,"date":"2011-06-23T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T05:41:14","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5685","title":{"rendered":"Alex Kozinski on mourning the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/axisoflogic.com\/artman\/publish\/Article_63269.shtml\">Remember what the Fourth Amendment protects? No? Just as well.<\/a> By Alex Kozinski and Stephanie Grace on Axisoflogic.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a dear friend, the Fourth Amendment. Born on the freedom-loving soil of early America, the Fourth Amendment will be remembered as the bulwark of the liberty we once called privacy. For ye, we mourn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, we\u2019re working on a eulogy for the Fourth Amendment, the part of the Constitution guarding against \u201cunreasonable searches and seizures\u201d \u2014 in effect, a privacy provision.<\/p>\n<p>When did the Fourth Amendment die, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, but it\u2019s been sick for a while.<\/p>\n<p>So why haven\u2019t you heard about it?<\/p>\n<p>Because you\u2019re the murderer. We all are. Our weapon of choice? Most recently, the smartphone, which, with our collective blessing, allows law enforcement to monitor our real-time geographic location. Although a bill recently proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would require police to obtain a warrant before turning our cellphones into tracking devices, such legislation may come too late to save the Fourth Amendment from this fatal blow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5685\">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-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","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=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}