{"id":6829,"date":"2012-03-16T00:14:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:14:17","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6829","title":{"rendered":"GPB News: &#8220;Welfare Drug Testing Bill Revised&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the beat goes on:<\/p>\n<p>GPB News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2012\/03\/15\/welfare-drug-testing-bill-revised#\">Welfare Drug Testing Bill Revised<\/a> by Jeanne Bonner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgia lawmakers are revising a bill that opponents say is almost certain to land in federal court. It would require welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. Its sponsor says the measure would save taxpayers money but others say it\u2019s unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Albers, a Roswell Republican, is the bill\u2019s sponsor. He modeled it on a Florida law, now blocked by a federal judge because it violates the Fourth Amendment\u2019s protection from unlawful search.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When these clowns pass such bills, they just make money for the plaintiffs&#8217; civil rights bar that files the case in attorneys fees. They are clueless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6829\">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-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","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=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}