Posted on 09/04/2009 2:47:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
That’s not a federal appeals court... That’s the 9th circus.
You realize, of course, that since the ACLU launched this suit as a civil rights case, that we -- the taxpayers -- are paying for defense representation.
It's one of the ways the ACLU stays afloat -- bringing civil rights cases. Which the US government pays them to do...
It’s official now.
The War on Terror is over and the terrorists won it on November 4, 2008.
9th circuit-nuff said.
9th circuit-nuff said.
If history holds, the Supreme Court will have a "stinging rebuke" of it's own for the 9th Circus.
So is the 9th circuit saying we can sue federal bureaucrats for violating our constitutional rights?
I can line up many, many people to do that, starting with the EPA pigs and then moving on to the fascist IRS.
I’ve never believed in so-called “sovereign immunity” but do believe in dueling. We could wipe out the entire left wing in America if dueling was brought back. I’d estimate a million point two left wing casualties the first day dueling is legalized.
Precisely. It is very easy to find three random activist pantloads on that particular court.
This ruling will be laughed off quickly, maybe even by the full court, but more likely by the Supreme Court.
But the lawsuits brought on by surviving families against the Klinton administration and Janet Reno, whose FBI was kicking in doors without warrants, shooting people in the back, and burning down houses with residents inside, were quickly slam-dunked and can never be brought before a court of law. So much for justice, eh?
It scores big political points to keep showing their pictures on the front page when they're walking in and out of court. Just like pics of Bush, the media always does screen-grabs from video footage so that they can always show an expression of fear, stupidity, or make them look psychotic. You can make anybody look stupid or crazy if you creatively edit thousands of hours of video footage.
Amazing, they suddenly give a sh*t about the Constitution after dumping on it for the last 50 years.
The last time things swung the other way, the Republican President declined to go after members of the previous RAT administration and refused to root out the holdovers, leaving them free to undermine his administration at every turn. Just sayin'.
UPDATE:
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/ashcroft-v-al-kidd/
“Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
SNIPPET - quote:
Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
10-98 9th Cir. Mar 2, 2011
Tr.Aud. May 31, 2011 8-0 Scalia OT 2010
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“Supreme Court tosses Abdullah al-Kidd suit against Attorney General over detainment with no charges”
BY LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 12:05 PM
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http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136818807/supreme-court-ashcroft-safe-from-detainee-lawsuit
“Supreme Court Throws Out Suit Against Ashcroft”
by NINA TOTENBERG
May 31, 2011
SNIPPET: “Al-Kidd, a former star running back at the University of Idaho, looked like an all-American boy in his college photos. Born in the U.S. to American parents and raised in the Christian faith, he converted to Islam while in college. That was unremarkable until the aftermath of Sept. 11, when the FBI began visiting him and asking about fellow Muslims. Al-Kidd answered all the FBI’s questions and by 2003 had not been contacted for some time. He was about to board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia where he was going to study language and religion, when he was arrested, shackled and taken to jail under a material witness warrant.”
Previously...
biotech.law.lsu.edu/courses/nat-sec/2010s/Al-Kiddv.Ashcroft9thCir.Sept.42009.pdf
Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft
United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 2009
580 F.3d 949
MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge: . . .
SNIPPET: “On March 14, the Idaho U.S. Attorney’s Office submitted an
application to a magistrate judge of the District of Idaho, seeking al-Kidd’s arrest as a material witness in the Al-Hussayen trial. Appended to the application was an affidavit by Scott Mace, a Special Agent of the FBI in Boise (the Mace Affidavit). The Mace Affidavit described two contacts al-Kidd had with Al-Hussayen: al-Kidd had received “in excess of $20,000” from Al-Hussayen (though the Mace Affidavit does not indicate what this payment was for), and al-Kidd had “met with Al-Hussayen’s associates” after returning from a trip to Yemen. It also contained evidence of al-Kidd’s contacts with officials of the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA, an organization with which Al-Hussayen was affiliated), including one official “who was recently arrested in New York.””
SNIPPET: “In fact, al-Kidd had a round-trip, coach class ticket, costing approximately $1,700.”
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