Federal Judge rules NSA surveillance unconstitutional!

ABC Radio News | 8/17/2006 | ABC Radio News

[sinkspur]

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

[piytar]

West Coast Conservative says: "A victory for the terrorists and liberals."

Isn't that redundant?

[longtermmemmory]

reporters saying they can't talk to their alqueda contacts.

no joke.

[andy58-in-nh]

Somebody please tell me how the ACLU had standing to bring this suit in the first place?

They represent radical mosques in Michigan, many of whose members have ties to various Al Qaeda groups.

[traditional1]

"Black Judges Association and Women Judges Association."

Oh boy; a "two-fer" (two credits for placing a double-minority in a position of power....one for the "female", and one for the "black"...)

[You Dirty Rats]

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers who say the program has made it difficult for them to do their jobs.

Boo hoo. Not doing this program would make it more difficult for our national security folks to do THEIR jobs.

I realize journalists, scholars and lawyers consider their jobs to be much more important than anyone else's, but I fly over the Atlantic a few times per years on business and I'm more concerned about a bomb at 35,000 feet than whether or not some fishhack, egghead or ambulance-chaser can profit from a conversation with a terrorist.

[norraad]

I'd say that's the first impression (they've no common sense), except it's a pattern.

They continually steer our ship towards the falls.

Aargh, I say it's time for them to be put off in their own little boat, eh, Mr. Christian?

[tobyhill]

This wasn't unexpected and even as she has done this it will be overturned by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. The unfortunate part of this is the part in her decision ordering an immediate halt and now the President must ignore her, wait for appeal and halt the program or have the AG file an emergency appeal based on national security maybe even to FISA.

[Peach]

Well, you know what? The next terrorist attack I'm laying directly at the feet of the Democrats. Directly.

[capitalist229]

We have a sun belt, a rust belt and a snow belt.

Coming soon - a suicide belt.

BUMP

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

this is disgusting.

[AliVeritas]

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[Mariner]

Irrelevent.

The administration will continue to persue this method until/unless the Supreme Court rules against it.

[dead]

That's exactly the way I see it today, but remember (God help us), if the Hildabeast were in the White House in 2008, would you feel comfortable with HER use of this power?

I wouldn't feel comfortable with Hillary doing anything except retiring or going to prison.

But if Hillary was authorizing the NSA to intercept international phone calls to the US originating from known terrorist-affiliated phone numbers overseas, I certainly wouldn't object.

[demlosers]

"A year later, she married S. Martin Taylor, then director of the Michigan Employment Security Commission.

In 1979, three years after she campaigned for Jimmy Carter's presidential bid, Carter rewarded Taylor with a lifetime appointment to U.S. District Court in Detroit.

Taylor was the first black female federal district judge in the U.S. 6th Circuit, comprising Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee."

[headstamp]

"An attorney and judge, Anna Diggs Taylor was the first African-American woman appointed to a federal judgeship in Michigan and later became the first African-American woman to be named chief federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan. Taylor has used her positions to advance civil rights throughout the United States."

The money paragraph. Another flaming liberal activist judge.

[MikefromOhio]

I'd expect the emergency appeal is already filed....

[traditional1]

"authorizing the NSA to intercept international phone calls to the US originating from known terrorist-affiliated phone numbers overseas, I certainly wouldn't object."I agree....but I'm sure she would NOT do something like that, to appease her voter base, for sure.

[Axeslinger]

You are exactly correct. People scream about the runaway judiciary. Justifiably so...it is runaway. But the Constitution provides the legislature with a means to hold them in check...impeachment. From lowest court to highest court, if judges act like morons they should be impeached.

[jdm]

Wasn't it a wiretap which (helped) thwart the plot to blow up planes recently?

This judge is sick.

[hipaatwo]

But even if Taylor harpoons the spying program, experts said, the decision likely would be overturned by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

"Given the composition of the 6th Circuit and its previous rulings in related areas, it seems more likely to favor national security over civil liberties if that issue is squarely presented," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia. "And that's what this case is all about."
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