{"id":15959,"date":"2015-02-17T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15959"},"modified":"2015-02-17T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:32:36","slug":"wapo-the-watch-the-supreme-courts-massive-blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15959","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Watch: The Supreme Court\u2019s massive blind spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/01\/22\/the-supreme-courts-massive-blind-spot\/\">The Supreme Court\u2019s massive blind spot<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This term, the Supreme Court heard two cases involving the actions of police officers during traffic stops. How the court comes down on the two cases will likely have significant repercussions far beyond the facts of the cases themselves. The court\u2019s decisions could affect how police target motorists, which motorists they target and how often, and how they interact with motorists once they\u2019ve pulled them over. The decisions will likely affect how police profile motorists to look for drug couriers, who gets detained and searched, and who has property confiscated through civil asset forfeiture.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the problem: You\u2019d be hard-pressed to assemble nine lawyers in America who as a collective are further removed from the realities of the facts of these cases than the nine justices of the Supreme Court. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Watch: The Supreme Court\u2019s massive blind spot by Radley Balko: This term, the Supreme Court heard two cases involving the actions of police officers during traffic stops. How the court comes down on the two cases will likely &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}