From: "Gary Britt" 

Lincolnesque Democracy.  If only we could return to those good old days
just for a year or two...... sigh wistfully

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44e4e2b3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Ah yes - Bushian democracy - "put this bitch in a military prison"
>
> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006608070381
>
> Anna Diggs Taylor never planned to become a federal judge.
>
> But opportunity knocked.
>
> She never intended to become the first black woman to serve as chief judge
> of the U.S. District Court in eastern Michigan.
>
> But she accepted out of a sense of historic duty.
>
> .....
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:44e4e0e7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Even the lawprof bloggers who think the NSA stuff doesn't pass
>> constitutional muster think that this opinion is so poorly written and
>> supported that it won't survive appeal.  The injunction will be set aside
>> almost immediately in all likelihood.  The entire opinion shortly after
>> that.
>>
>> I wish things were such that Bush could follow Lincoln's example and just
>> put this bitch in a military prison.  I am so sick of idiot liberal
>> judges trying to get me and my family killed and to destroy our culture
>> and way of life.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:44e4cd04$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Hey a little thing like violating the constitution  never stopped the
>>> Bushies before. Hopefully the ruling will survive appeal
>>>
>>> http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/9694856/detail.html
>>> Taylor's ruling won't take immediate effect. The Justice Department said
>>> it had reached an agreement with the ACLU to postpone implementing the
>>> order until Taylor can hear its request for a stay pending appeal.
>>>
>>> "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
>>> news:44e4cb4a{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,71610-0.html?tw=wn_index_3
>>>>
>>>> A federal judge in Detroit ruled Thursday morning that the NSA's
>>>> "Terrorist
>>>> Surveillance Program" violates the due process and free speech
>>>> guarantees of
>>>> the U.S. Constitution, and ordered an immediate and
permanent halt to
>>>> the
>>>> Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping on
domestic telephone
>>>> and
>>>> internet communications.
>>>>
>>>> U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, presiding over an ACLU
>>>> challenge to the program, rejected (.pdf) the government's assertion
>>>> that
>>>> the state secrets privilege prevents any review of the NSA
>>>> surveillance.
>>>>
>>>> In the past, the privilege has allowed the government to put an
>>>> immediate
>>>> stop to judicial proceedings that it says might reveal top national
>>>> security
>>>> secrets.
>>>>
>>>> But in this case, "the court is persuaded that
Plaintiffs are able to
>>>> establish a prima facie case based solely on Defendants' public
>>>> admissions"
>>>> regarding the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of Americans.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  Phil Payne
>>>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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