[Boot Hill]

AP reports:   "A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist organizations."

But the idiot judge says:   "The USA Patriot Act places no limitation on the type of expert advice and assistance which is prohibited and instead bans the provision of all expert advice and assistance regardless of its nature."

Such a ban is well within the power of Congress. If this were a violation of the 1st Amendment, then the communications the Rosenbergs made to the Soviets regarding the atomic bomb would have been protected communications under the 1st Amendment too. Nor could any communication to an enemy in time of war ever be considered treason, rather than a communication protected by the 1st Amendment.

The judge is an idiot, but then she is a Clinton appointee.

--Boot Hill

[Don Joe]

The judge is an idiot, but then she is a Clinton appointee.

Good conclusion.

Now tell us what that logic means when determining the quality of some of Papa Bush's appointees.