{"id":41247,"date":"2019-12-17T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41247"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:45:40","slug":"brietbart-pollak-house-democrats-violated-the-first-fourth-fifth-and-sixth-amendments-in-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41247","title":{"rendered":"Brietbart: Pollak: House Democrats Violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments in Impeachment Inquiry [No they didn&#8217;t.]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brietbart: Pollak: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/12\/17\/pollak-house-democrats-violated-the-first-fourth-fifth-and-sixth-amendments-in-impeachment-inquiry\/\">House Democrats Violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments in Impeachment Inquiry<\/a> by Joel Pollack:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fourth Amendment: Schiff\u2019s snooping on phone logs violated the protection against \u201cunreasonable searches and seizures.\u201d As the Wall Street Journal\u2018s Kim Strassel has noted, \u201cFederal law bars phone carriers from handing over records without an individual\u2019s agreement.\u201d There are exceptions for legitimate law enforcement investigations, but there is no exception for lawmakers, and Schiff\u2019s inquiry had no law enforcement purpose; no crime was alleged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Pollack is conflating subpoenas and search warrants. A federal subpoena is valid process, especially for business record. He apparently forgets, or doesn&#8217;t even know, that the Republican SCOTUS approved of subpoenas for phone records in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/12\/17\/pollak-house-democrats-violated-the-first-fourth-fifth-and-sixth-amendments-in-impeachment-inquiry\/\">1979&#8217;s Smith v. Maryland<\/a>, forty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brietbart: Pollak: House Democrats Violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments in Impeachment Inquiry by Joel Pollack:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247","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=41247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41250,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions\/41250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}