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Federal Judge rules NSA surveillance unconstitutional!
ABC Radio News | 8/17/2006 | ABC Radio News

Posted on 08/17/2006 9:06:43 AM PDT by sinkspur

A federal district judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration's NSA surveillance of phone conversations is unconstitutional.


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To: Owen
Why does the Adminstration never seem to be prepared for these things?

I wondered when some knucklehead would claim that this ruling by a Leftist judge is BUSH'S FAULT!!

The ruling just happened -- will you at least have the decency to allow the Administration time to respond before taking any more cheap shots?

You have no idea what the Administration has been doing or will do on this case. Next time think before you launch an attack.

161 posted on 08/17/2006 9:58:14 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!!!)
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To: sinkspur

In Detroit ????

Oh Good Grief


162 posted on 08/17/2006 9:58:24 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: hipaatwo; Congressman Billybob
Here's something else to throw in the mix. I just ran across this little legal whatever it is...

Inter arma salient leges, which translates as In times of war, the laws are silent. What's the deal with that?

163 posted on 08/17/2006 9:58:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mystery-ak
Why Detroit?

I think we all know the answer to that one

164 posted on 08/17/2006 9:59:30 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: dead
LOL!!! I really enjoyed gore's daughter and her moving "assets".

But for the life of me, I can't figure out who are the sailor and woman he's kissing?

165 posted on 08/17/2006 9:59:34 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: tobyhill

Heard on FOX a few minutes ago that they're reading it over at the White House- and can't make heads nor tails of the ruling...said it's confusing and all over the place..


166 posted on 08/17/2006 10:00:05 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
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To: You Dirty Rats

Who argued this case against the ACLU?


167 posted on 08/17/2006 10:01:06 AM PDT by EBH (Islam: A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.)
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To: SE Mom

Ping to post 157. My eyes are now crossed!


168 posted on 08/17/2006 10:01:44 AM PDT by hipaatwo (Kofi anti-Semite who sucks up to Arab dictators and presides over UN choking on its own filth-JPod)
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To: drungus
Right they are called kirpans. there were some cases i remember in canada and michigan where middle eastern immigrants insisted on the right to carry these weapons because they were religious symbols.
169 posted on 08/17/2006 10:01:48 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: Republican Red
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers...

Well there ya go! Sounds like the usual suspects.

170 posted on 08/17/2006 10:01:57 AM PDT by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts + Arbua is a cesspool)
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To: sinkspur
Wonder if that colorful constituency up there in Detroit had any effect on her?

Carter Appointment, appointed in Nov 15 1979.
171 posted on 08/17/2006 10:02:25 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: newfreep

172 posted on 08/17/2006 10:03:01 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Mo1

I just got finished reading the ruling and this judge states that she's sure the plaintiffs suffered damage but she can't award them anything other than the program being suspended because "they don't have standing". If these plaintiffs didn't have standing for damage awards then they shouldn't have had standing for the case to be heard in this judge's court.
157 posted on 08/17/2006 12:56:21 PM EDT by tobyhill



WTF? Stupid ass ruling!


173 posted on 08/17/2006 10:03:03 AM PDT by hipaatwo (Kofi anti-Semite who sucks up to Arab dictators and presides over UN choking on its own filth-JPod)
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To: tobyhill

You are exactly right: President Bush should just ignore the ruling.

People seem to think that judges are the final authority on what is constitutional and what is not.

When the Constitution grants a specific power to the President (like defending the country from foreign enemies as Commander in Chief), legitimate Presidentional actions to carry out that responsibility cannot simply be waved off by the ACLU and some friendly judge.

After President Bush tells the judge to stuff it, the people ultimate decide on the constitutionality of his actions through future elections or impeachment.


174 posted on 08/17/2006 10:03:39 AM PDT by redfog
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To: CatoRenasci

I know, I know, but most people are more familiar with "Carthago delenda est."


175 posted on 08/17/2006 10:03:49 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: sinkspur

Juris-im-prudence.........


176 posted on 08/17/2006 10:04:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Nice link. I remember her ex-hubby, Charlie Diggs. Very interesting...


177 posted on 08/17/2006 10:04:50 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: SE Mom
Basically it said that since the government refused to divulge secret information in public she was forced to rule the program unconstitutional even though the plaintiffs had no standing.
178 posted on 08/17/2006 10:04:57 AM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: hipaatwo

LOL..both of us...just NUTS.


179 posted on 08/17/2006 10:05:01 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
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To: hipaatwo
They are trying to block it for as long as they can

They know this ruling will be over turned

180 posted on 08/17/2006 10:05:22 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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