ACLU Offers Help to Limbaugh

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Thursday Dec. 25, 2003; 10:54 p.m. EST

ACLU Offers Help to Limbaugh

The director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida says he wants to help number one talk radio host Rush Limbaugh keep his medical records away from the prying eyes of Democratic Party prosecutors.

''I don't know if Rush Limbaugh wants the help of the ACLU, but I intend to call his attorney on Friday,'' ACLU executive director Howard L. Simon told the Miami Herald on Thursday.

Simon said he was prompted to join the case based on what looks like a blatant invasion of privacy by prosecutors who are looking to substantiate claims that the top talker was "doctor shopping" to obtain prescription painkillers.

''Medical records are a lot different than looking at your office or searching your automobile,'' he told the Herald. "There is nothing that is more intrusive to your privacy.''

On Wednesday a Florida judge ordered the records resealed pending an appeal by Limbaugh's attorneys, after ruling two days earlier that State's Attorney Barry Krischer could review them.

Krischer is a Democrat who strongly backed former Attorney General Janet Reno when she was tapped by Hillary Clinton in 1993.

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[The Red Zone]

They might hope that Rush will quit jabbing at them on air. That would be kind of difficult for him to do if he accepts their involvement. It may even be difficult for him to do if he doesn't.

[nmh]

Hopefully he will decline and not align himself with the ACLU. He's got enough money to fight it off himself.

[longtermmemmory]

This "investigation" is on appeal. The ACLU could simply petition the 4th DCA for permission to file an amicus brief. Assuming it is granted, they could appear and appeal on whatever grounds they want.

Why announce they are offering to help rush. Why not an announcement of their intention to file an amicus brief regardless? Probably because they may WANT the rejection. This way they can stay out of the Rush case and say "we offered". They are still hypocrits.

If this was another case they would not have asked or looked for excuses not to file. They would have filed no matter what.

[The Red Zone]

The ACLU knows, I think, that just the offer will put pressure on him to be, at least, more "nuanced" in his criticism of them. Which could essentially shut Rush up because Rush is not exactly "Mr. Nuance."

[Lancey Howard]

This sounds like another attempt by the ACLU to con people into thinking that they are not an arm of the Democrat Party USA. Like when they do a ballyhooed KKK case every 20 years or so. "See? We're non-partisan. We really are."

Rush will not let the scumbags at the ACLU use him.
I believe Rush will tell them to take a hike - - maybe tell them to go to Wyoming or Montana and find some little town somewhere with a Christmas tree in the local park and sue them.

[longtermmemmory]

Which is probably why they are offering to help him instead of filing an amicus brief on the appeal.

[Lancey Howard]

Are you joking? Rush will bury the ACLU scumbags relentlessly and mercilessly.

[Lancey Howard]

Probably because they may WANT the rejection. This way they can stay out of the Rush case and say "we offered". They are still hypocrits.

I see your point, but Rush can avoid "rejecting" their help by simply failing to respond one way or the other. Just ignore them completely.

[pawdoggie]

This is typical ACLU. They defend a hundred child molesters, a hundred Christianity-banning, Islam-promoting school boards, a thousand Islamo-terrorists in Gitmo, and then they try to "prove" they're not just Left-Wing extremists by defending one Conservative or some Illinois Nazis. They've been taking it on the chin for some of their recent "successful" missteps (which will come back to haunt them and their Democrat supporters in the next election), and now they're trying distraction to take the spotlight off their war on religion and support for homosexual marriage and pedophile "rights". On the one hand, their "support" for Limbaugh might dissuade the next Left-Wing appellate judge from denying Rush's appeal. On the other hand, if the ACLU didn't think the law was firmly on Rush's side, they never would have made the offer in the first place (doubtless believing that Rush would not accept their help), so why would Rush or Roy Black cater to their desire for positive PR?

[longtermmemmory]

Appeals, in the state system will normally be decided by a three judge panel. If an interested third party wants to be involved, they can file for permission to file a friend of the court brief. They do not need the consent of the parties to make this request.

I don't think they really want to help. I think they are just going to back off after Rush says "thanks but no thanks". An amicus brief on their part would be appropriate given the number of abortion cases that they have argued for privacy reasons. (FL has a specific black letter privacy clause in the state constitution.)

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Talk about Brown nosing is the ACLU actually going to try and help their arch enema ?

Guess all i can say is Nice gesture ? lmao

[pending]

Yup. Call thier bluff, stand on it.
There are good civil rights causes, this is one.
Right is right.
And it will potentially bring together folks who need to start talking, and stop yelling. This is bigger than
party politics, this is party politics dominating law enforcement, and needs to be stopped.
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[jagrmeister]

The prosecutor (a Democrat supporter of Reno and McBride) is out of control in making a mountain out of the molehill of acquiring prescription drugs. Only the densest at Free Republic still consider this a legitimate inquiry.

[goldstategop]

The ACLU and Rush: the politics of privacy makes for strange bedfellows.

[KneelBeforeZod]

ACLU Defends Nazis' Right To Burn Down ACLU Headquarters

[jim_trent]

The ACLU offered to help a homegrown Nazi (no, really, an American Nazi) in Lincoln, Nebraska a few years ago. He had been convicted of publishing Nazi literature in Europe and had been lured over there to be arrested. He spent a short time in jail there. Anyway, when he came back, he tried to buy a handgun and was turned down.

He went to court saying that they Government could not use that European conviction against him, because what he did was not a crime in the US (first amendment rights). The ACLU got a lot of print by offering to represent him. He accepted. Shortly before the case was to be heard, they withdrew. There was VERY little press coverage on the ACLU withdrawing. He lost his case.

[ConservativeMan55]

[ConservativeMan55]

"Just Damn!"

[willyboyishere]

ACLU helping Limbaugh= Kiss of Death.

[E.G.C.]

Bump in support of Rush