{"id":37114,"date":"2019-04-06T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37114"},"modified":"2019-04-07T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:18:50","slug":"cato-blog-a-pretextual-traffic-stop-should-require-sufficient-pretext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37114","title":{"rendered":"Cato blog: A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/pretextual-traffic-stop-should-require-sufficient-pretext\">A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext<\/a> by Jonathan Blanks:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several years ago, Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf asked Twitter \u201cIf you could add one Bill of Rights style amendment to the Constitution what would it be?\u201d I responded \u201cThe Fourth Amendment and \u201cwe mean it.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My answer may have been tongue-in-cheek, but quite seriously, the Fourth Amendment and its protections have been eroded by the Supreme Court precedents over several decades. As a result, the power of the police to intrude upon the lives of individuals has grown and they have taken advantage of that power throughout the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato blog: A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext by Jonathan Blanks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114","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=37114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37125,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114\/revisions\/37125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}