{"id":6994,"date":"2012-04-18T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:00:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"AJC.com: Op-ed: &#8220;Poor people not excluded from Constitution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJC.com: Op-ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jay-bookman-blog\/2012\/04\/18\/poor-people-not-excluded-from-constitution\/\">Poor people not excluded from Constitution<\/a> by Jay Bookman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>On April 15, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Georgia law that required candidates to be tested for illegal drugs before they could run for public office. In \u201cChandler v. Miller\u201d, the court ruled that the tests amounted to an unreasonable, unjustified search of a person\u2019s body that is forbidden under the Fourth Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever well-meant, the candidate drug test Georgia has devised diminishes personal privacy for a symbol\u2019s sake,\u201d Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in the 8-1 decision, joined by justices such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6994\">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-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994","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=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}