TAYLOR
Posted on 08/17/2006 7:44:30 PM PDT by nwrep
Carter appointee U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has used the same kind of language that has become popular on left-wing blogs like Daily-Kos to slam the Bush family in the verdict she delivered today, declaring the NSA surveillance of terrorists unconstitutional.
In an irrelevant aside, she grabbed at the "King George" phrase thrown around in the left-wing blogosphere to launch a thinly-veiled attack on the President:
Our constitution was drafted by founders and ratified by a people who still held in vivid memory the image of King George III and his General Warrants.
In an allusion to the President's father, she went on, sounding like a DU member on hemp:
There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution.
Further, she actually excuses and defends communication with terrorists:
For example, scholars and journalists such as plaintiffs Tara McKelvey, Larry Diamond, and Barnett Rubin indicate that they must conduct extensive research in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and must communicate with individuals abroad whom the United States government believes to be terrorist suspects or to be associated with terrorist organizations.12 In addition, attorneys Nancy Hollander, William Swor, Joshua Dratel, Mohammed Abdrabboh, and Nabih Ayad indicate that they must also communicate with individuals abroad whom the United States government believes to be terrorist suspects or to be associated with terrorist organizations,13 and must discuss confidential information over the phone and email with their international clients.
This judge is not fit to be so called. She has become a crack-whore for the terrorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
BTW, the ACLU judged shopped, until they found this sedition piece of garbage.
"In her ruling she said that it's ok for scholars and journalist to communicate with the enemies. "
Her statement say's they indicated they MUST communicat with blah blah. Now why would that be?
This is highly intemperate stuff, especially for a federal judge. And this preachy time reminds me of Jimmy Carter himself. Hey Jimmy, has Ronald Reagan finally stopped piling up the electoral votes in the 1980 election?
So I assume this ruling eliminates most of the federal government then?
How nice to be rid of social security, medicare and the other onerous government programs we have been saddled with.
Anna Diggs Taylor is now, as a result of this action, on the Democrats' short-list for Supreme Court nominee.
Imagine, if you can, having your life; that of your family; and that of the nation directly subject to this person.
Credit where credit is due; and the only way to understand what otherwise appears totally senseless.
Heard it first on Rush that we have Jimmy Carter to thank. . .and it was the 'missing piece' after that; with every mention of this news story.
This barking moonbat was born in 1932, per earlier postings.
I would think, at 74, she'd want to retire and enjoy life without the robes. Of course I'm dealing in common sense and she obviously is not.
I guess if you're on a mission for the left's ideology, you just never give up the bone. Once a junkyard dog, always a junkyard dog.
Oh c'mon! I have seen the footage of Pearl Harbor being bombed! What are you a WWII denier?
LOL
Charge her with treason? Do you know how stupid you sound? You are probably one of the few people in America who knows less about our laws and the Constitution than this poor excuse for a jurist.
Nominated by Jimmy Carter on May 17, 1979
Legislative assistant / Detroit office manager, U.S. Rep. Charles C. Diggs, Jr., 1967-70
Representative Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (Democrat, Michigan) 1955-1980
They married in 1960 and moved to Detroit.
Taylor, 73, is a liberal with Democratic roots and defended civil-rights workers in the South in the 1960s
Taylor was born Anna Katherine Johnston in 1932 in Washington, D.C. Her father was treasurer of Howard University. Her mother was a homemaker and a business teacher.
Unable to get a job as a lawyer at New York or Washington, D.C., law firms -- a near impossibility for black people, especially women, in the 1950s -- Taylor turned to the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of Labor. She became a lawyer there with the help of J. Ernest Wilkins, then assistant secretary of labor and the first black person appointed to a subcabinet post. He also was a friend of her father's.
In Washington, Taylor met Charles Diggs Jr., son of a wealthy Detroit mortician and a rising star in Congress.
In 1966, Taylor became an assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit, but left the following year to manage her husband's Detroit congressional office.
During the next five years, she and Diggs divorced. She also campaigned for Coleman Young, helping him become Detroit's first black mayor.
In 1975, Young asked her to become a staff lawyer to defend his programs to integrate city government.
A year later, she married S. Martin Taylor, then director of the Michigan Employment Security Commission.
In 1984, Taylor banned nativity scenes on municipal property in Birmingham and Dearborn in ACLU lawsuits.
In 1979, Anna Diggs Taylor became the first black woman judge to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Nineteen years later, she became the first black woman Chief Judge for that circuit as well.
Give me a break.
They think they've been monitored.
They think they know people who are engaged in acts of terrorism.
And those terrorists won't talk to them because the terrorists don't want to be discovered.
Are we at war, or not?
What is the usual treatment of private communication with the enemy in time of war?
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