madmex2000 Report This Comment Date: August 17, 2006 06:19PM
(CNN) -- A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's
warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended
immediately.
In a 44-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, -- who
is based in Detroit, Michigan --struck down the National Security Agency's
program, which she said violates the rights to free speech and privacy.
In a Republican led world you don't need this basic right.
Freedom on the March....
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: August 17, 2006 08:03PM
Hey, "I don't have anything to hide", so "what should we be
worried about?"
mrkim Report This Comment Date: August 17, 2006 11:12PM
What do you know, a real 1st. For once Madmex and I agree on something.
The whole concept of "nothing to hide personally" when a government
action flies totally in the face of our constitutional rights holds no water for
me.
I always knew the courts would be the ones to eventually decide this issue and
had hoped this indeed would be the outcome of their review.
I must also relate I doubt that U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor will have
a long and lustrous career in that post after that ruling.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: August 18, 2006 04:23AM
Face It! It will be appealed and resumed. Madmex, please do not say "the
courts" Its one activist judge........PERIOD
mrkim Report This Comment Date: August 18, 2006 05:45AM
I'm sure it will be appealed and hope that it will eventually stand as a
pertinet ruling, though it's likely to have to make it all the way to the
Supreme Court before it will ever really stick.
In case you seem a bit confused by the phrase "the courts"
Anonymous@50216, any court in America actually is a division of the Judicial
Branch which is loosely and commonly referred to as "the courts", so
this is the correct phrase to use since the court mentioned is a part of that
system.