{"id":7144,"date":"2012-05-17T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:32:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:32:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"Plunderbund: &#8220;Ohio Republicans AGAIN Try to Pass Unconstitutional Laws. This Time: Welfare Drug Testing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from the political party of small government: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plunderbund.com\/2012\/05\/16\/ohio-republicans-again-try-to-pass-unconstitutional-laws-this-time-welfare-drug-testing\/\">Ohio Republicans AGAIN Try to Pass Unconstitutional Laws. This Time: Welfare Drug Testing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ohio Senate Republicans have proposed a three-county, two-year program where welfare applicants who are suspected of having a drug problem would have to submit to and pay for drug tests before receiving benefits.  The Dispatch notes that Ohio is not unique:  the \u201cmove appears to be part of a renewed national GOP movement to require drug testing for welfare recipients. &#8230;  revised laws have been introduced this session in about 30 states, and lawmakers in Georgia, Utah, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana have moved legislation in recent weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. ..<\/p>\n<p>The proposal to drug test welfare recipients is just the latest effort of Republican legislators to import ideological ideas from other states.  But at least by bringing in ideas in from other states, we don\u2019t have to guess that the proposals are unconstitutional.  We know.  We know because judges have already ruled that these efforts in other states are unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trying to make money for civil rights lawyers when budgets are tight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7144\">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-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}