{"id":4685,"date":"2012-04-05T07:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2012-04-05T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:26:58","slug":"you-wont-mind-the-strip-search-after-the-pepper-spray-and-tasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/you-wont-mind-the-strip-search-after-the-pepper-spray-and-tasing\/","title":{"rendered":"You won&#8217;t mind the strip search after the pepper spray and tasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, the court astoundingly ruled \u2014 5 Republican appointees to 4 Democratic appointees \u2014 to give police carte blanche on strip-searches, even for minor offenses such as driving without a license or violating a leash law. Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s warning that wholesale strip-searches were \u201ca serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy\u201d fell on deaf ears. <strong>So much for the conservatives\u2019 obsession with \u201cliberty.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/04\/opinion\/dowd-men-in-black.html?src=tp&amp;smid=fb-share\">Men in Black &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Maureen Dowd<\/p>\n<p>[hat tip to Pat Lyford]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the court astoundingly ruled \u2014 5 Republican appointees to 4 Democratic appointees \u2014 to give police carte blanche on strip-searches, even for minor offenses such as driving without a license or violating a leash law. Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s warning that wholesale strip-searches were \u201ca serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/you-wont-mind-the-strip-search-after-the-pepper-spray-and-tasing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You won&#8217;t mind the strip search after the pepper spray and tasing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4686,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions\/4686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}