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GA state rep.: Drug testing for unemployment benefits

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On FoxNews.com, for some reason: Laid Off? Take a Drug Test | Lawmaker wants people get drug-tested in order to get unemployment benefits (video actually from March, but it was discussed today, again), from a Georgia state lawmaker. See also ajc.com from March. Its HB 1389, and the recipient of the funds has to pay for the test. Didn't that die without a vote? This is so old, it's not newsworthy. But, that's Fox--filling airtime with the scare of the day. This is so unconstitutional, it's laughable. See Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001), and Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305 (1997) [from Georgia]. If it's me, its unconstitutional. If it's you, well that's reasonable government regulation designed to save the Republic.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 19, 2010 (boomark / email).