{"id":17003,"date":"2015-04-29T07:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2015-04-29T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:28:29","slug":"the-constitution-doesnt-stop-most-legislatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17003","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution doesn&#8217;t stop most legislatures making a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tribune: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/04\/28\/senate-approves-drug-testing-all-candidates-seekin\/\">Senate Approves Drug Testing for Political Candidates<\/a> by Matthew Watkins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any candidate seeking elected office in Texas would be required to take a drug test when he or she files to run, under a proposal that the state Senate approved Tuesday. But the idea may never take effect, since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a similar law in the 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8655257031938182800&#038;q=Chandler&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=20002\">Chandler v. Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the point? That political expediency is more important than law? That&#8217;s what I take from it. That&#8217;s how my state legislature operates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tribune: Senate Approves Drug Testing for Political Candidates by Matthew Watkins: Any candidate seeking elected office in Texas would be required to take a drug test when he or she files to run, under a proposal that the state &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17003\">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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","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=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17006,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}