{"id":155366,"date":"2026-07-30T04:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155366"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:51:39","slug":"faucis-refusals-put-spotlight-on-pleading-the-fifth-right-in-usunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155366","title":{"rendered":"Fauci\u2019s refusals put spotlight on \u2018pleading the Fifth\u2019 right in USUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIt was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights \u2013 that no person \u201cshall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself\u201d.<br \/>\nToday, that protection \u2013 famously known as \u201cpleading the Fifth\u201d \u2013 remains one of the most visible and politically charged safeguards in American law.<br \/>\nIt has seeped into the culture, too. \u201cPleading the Fifth\u201d has become an idiom in the United States, used jokingly in casual&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3362344\/faucis-silence-puts-fresh-spotlight-pleading-fifth-right-us?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIt was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}