{"id":6353,"date":"2011-12-03T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:35:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6353","title":{"rendered":"Ga. legislator proposes drug testing of welfare recipients and the legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dumb legislators at it again, this time in Georgia. From the AJC.com blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/political-insider-jim-galloway\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-topic-of-drug-testing-weve-been-here-before\/\">On the topic of drug-testing: We\u2019ve been here before<\/a> by jgalloway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So we are back to talking about mandatory drug tests for those who receive government assistance. State Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, is one of those backing the measure.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has blocked a similar measure in Florida on constitutional grounds. Fourth Amendment protection against search and seizure is alleged. But we are entering an election year, so the odds favor passage here in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction, state Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-Atlanta, on Friday dropped a measure to require that all members of the Legislature submit urine or blood samples so that they, too, can be screened for mind-altering substances.<\/p>\n<p>If all this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because we\u2019ve been here before. A well-informed reader reminded us of a <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8655257031938182800&amp;q=Chandler&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=20002\">particular April 15, 1997 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>. [link added]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No sense of history? Never read a Supreme Court case? Did Rep. Holcomb get Sen. Albers&#8217;s attention? I doubt he understood the irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6353\">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-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}