Posted on 10/08/2005 12:53:12 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
WHY DIDN'T RUTH BUZZIE GINSBURG RECUSE HERSELF FROM THIS CASE???!?? SHE USED TO WORK FOR THE ACLU!!!
Yeah, yeah, I know she denied their appeal. My point is: if she were Antonin Scalia ruling on a "Halliburton" or some other Cheney case, the leftwingnuts would be crying foul over the involvement.
She only declined to speed-up the decision. I wonder if the 'unusually detailed explanation' also include some hints on how to win the case over the complete SCOTUS.
Good question.
The reason is very simple ~ dateless, spinster librarians find young AlQaida activists to be appropriate targets for their sexual urges ~ The ACLU comes into the picture because they like terrorists and sex just as much as any librarian.
She just sent it back to the lower court. If it goes back to the Supreme Court she will have to vote on it. THEN we will know where she stands.
If there is an attorney here perhaps you can answer my question. Isn't the part of the Patriot Act being questioned taken from the RICO act.
I may have worded this wrong but I know there is something in RICO that the ACLU wants removed from the Patriot Act.
She just sent it back to the lower court. If it goes back to the Supreme Court she will have to vote on it. THEN we will know where she stands.
If there is an attorney here perhaps you can answer my question. Isn't the part of the Patriot Act being questioned taken from the RICO act.
I may have worded this wrong but I know there is something in RICO that the ACLU wants removed from the Patriot Act.
I could be wrong, but from what I've understood of Janic Rogers Brown, she would side with Ruth Buzzi on this, while Miers would not. Food for thought.
WTF?
I was under the impression that duel elected members of Congress held congressional debates on the Acts before them.
Not libraries....churches....dog catchers...or McDonalds line cooks.
Am I to understand that I can waltz into a session of Congress and hold the floor with my personal opinions?
There not!
Just look to the old USSR
Check out the wrong book.
And you got an all expenses paid trip to the Great White East.
Just wait till you fit the profile some egghead made up. That would do some local event that happend. Just because of some book you checked out. And asked.
“ What was your location was on the night of....”
My understanding (from the article) is that a library received an FBI subpoena, and was told to keep it secret. So the issue is not providing the information, but whether you can be required to remain silent when you do.
Close the libraries. That’s a fool idea. Why would you want to do that!
There’s a lot more to libraries that going there to watch porn. Not every household has the net for one thing.
I have been out of High School for 30 years. Here’s a list of the book I have checked out right now from our library system. I don’t think our local HS would have them.
And that don’t include Videos or times I look up something in a 40 year old news paper. Or many more things.
Born to fly : the untold story of the downed American reconnaissance plane / by Shane Osborn
Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles / Anthony Swofford
Return with honor / Scott O'Grady
Amelia Earhart's daughters : the wild and glorious story of American women aviators from World War II to the dawn of the space age / Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey
The universe in a single atom : the convergence of science and spirituality / the Dalai Lama
By any means necessary : America's secret air war in the Cold War / William E. Burrows
The last mission : the secret story of World War II's final battle / Jim B. Smith
Voices from Chernobyl / Svetlana Alexievich
Bible as history : a confirmation of the Book of Books
Dark hero of the information age : in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics / Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman.
Reflections of Pearl Harbor : an oral history of December 7, 1941 / K.D. Richardson
The state boys rebellion / Michael D'Antonio.
Trail Ordeal of the USS Enterprise
The Bonus Army : an American epic / Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen
The sinking of the Eastland : America's forgotten tragedy / Jay Bonansinga
Eastland : legacy of the Titanic / George W. Hilton
Yes. I'm just saying if it came up, with Miers' background on the WOT, I think we know what she'd do.
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