{"id":8758,"date":"2013-05-17T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:17:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8758","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Paul, please quit bitching and do something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One can always count on the Washington Times to get the Constitution wrong. This reports on Sen. Rand Paul, and he&#8217;s wrong, too. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/may\/16\/a-staggering-abuse-of-power\/\">PAUL: A staggering abuse of power \/ Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution<\/a> by Rand Paul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/16\/republicans-benghazi-emails_n_3289428.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D314496\">cover-up in Benghazi<\/a> to letting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) target the Tea Party to First and Fourth Amendment violations in obtaining records from the press, Mr. Obama has shown disregard for the Bill of Rights and his responsibilities as commander in chief.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Paul: It is NOT a violation of the Fourth Amendment to subpoena records like this. <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3033726127475530815&amp;q=smith+v.+maryland&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Smith v. Maryland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/epic.org\/privacy\/ecpa\/\">ECPA<\/a> which is at least 20 years out of date. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/15\/politics\/presidents-leakers\">There is no federal press shield law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You are a U.S. Senator, for God&#8217;s sake. Spare us your faux BS moral indignation and do something to create a third party privacy interest by legislation. Strike while the iron is hot, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>I know, that didn&#8217;t work for new gun legislation, but hey, everybody knows the only section of the Bill of Rights that Republicans care about is the Second Amendment. The rest are ancient history. Prove me wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8758\">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-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758","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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}