{"id":36095,"date":"2019-01-16T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T02:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36095"},"modified":"2019-01-16T21:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T02:26:25","slug":"new-law-review-article-fourth-amendment-textualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36095","title":{"rendered":"New Law Review Article: Fourth Amendment Textualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Law Review Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3309688\">Fourth Amendment Textualism<\/a> by Jeffrey Bellin, posted on SSRN.  Abstract:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court\u2019s inability to coherently define the term \u201csearch\u201d plagues its Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Even the Justices know they have a problem. Recent opinions only half-heartedly apply the controlling \u201creasonable expectation of privacy\u201d test and its reviled cousin, \u201cthird-party doctrine,\u201d with a few Justices in open revolt.<\/p>\n<p>These fissures hint at the Court\u2019s openness to a new approach. Unfortunately, no viable alternatives appear on the horizon. The Justices themselves offer little in the way of a replacement. And scholars\u2019 proposals exhibit the same complexity, subjectivity, and illegitimacy that pervades the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>This Article proposes a shift toward simplicity. Buried underneath the doctrinal complexity of the past fifty years is a straightforward constitutional directive. A simple three-part formula, derived from the constitutional text, deftly solves the Fourth Amendment \u201csearch\u201d conundrums that continue to beguile the Court. This textualist approach offers clarity and legitimacy, both long missing from \u201csearch\u201d jurisprudence. And by generating predictable and sensible answers, the proposed framework establishes clear boundaries for police investigation, while incentivizing legislators to add additional privacy protections where needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Law Review Article: Fourth Amendment Textualism by Jeffrey Bellin, posted on SSRN. Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095","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=36095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36096,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095\/revisions\/36096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}