Posted on 08/19/2006 8:54:38 AM PDT by roostercogburn
CINCINNATI - The Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program, rejected by a federal judge, is heading toward an appellate court loaded with the president's own appointees.
However, veterans of cases before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals caution that the court's mixed record in a broad range of rulings makes it difficult to predict how it will view the surveillance the administration says is crucial to stopping terrorists.
"It is not a foregone conclusion that a conservative-dominated court is going to say, 'President Bush did this and we're going to uphold what he wants,'" said Robert A. Sedler, a law professor at Wayne State University. "There are many issues in this case. Conservative judges often have a very strongly libertarian streak."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
It's funny the aCLU hasn't yet filed a lawsuit on behalf of Al Qaeda complaining about the military's invasion of their "privacy" by their use of those Predator aircraft. I can already see the military being required to get a "warrant" from a "judge" before they can fly those spy drones over enemy territory. It's coming.
Here's an article that discusses some of the blatant manuevering that happened at the Sixth Circuit concerning the AA cases:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tbray/?id=110001857
And did the House Judiciary Committee ever hold a hearing on the shenanigans described in the article?
Nahhh.
As Freeper roostercogburn so aptly put it:
Wonder why no mention of the liberal leaning of the hack who ruled against the case the other day?
The terrorist Media isn't interested in exposing the political droolings of a 74-year-old semi-senile Democrat Carter hack "judge".
See Freeper PajamaTruthMafia's hilarious post #2 for some candid pictures of the black-robed Carter clown.
Glad I could be of service. But is this current news? Is MSNBC still on the cable? Or, are their people going door to door, telling their version of the "news" to whomever is home, and dares to open the door?
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Agreed. This decision is the equivalent of a manila envelope full of naughty pictures of a philandering spouse at a divorce court hearing - case closed.
The left is just as much our enemy as Islam. Wake up America!!! These judges are activists, not their official duties, and they must be removed from the bench.
Thanks for the ping.
I know full well what I am advocating. The courts have been taken over by activists anti-americans.
I would arrest and prosecute them for sedition.
I also understand that the Constitution was for Law-abiding citizens! Those who broke the Law and in time of WAR were quickly dispatched (killed).
Too many have forgotten or never learned their history. All the while the communists use our government against us.
Unbelievable bias. I saw this posted on the front page of my msn service. What a headline.
It's like Repubicans/Conservatives don't even exist.
Spot on!
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