U.S. Judge Upholds NSA Phone Surveillance Program(nytimes.com)

11 pointsby johndbritton13 lat temu0 comments

U.S. Judge Upholds NSA Phone Surveillance Program

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/12/27/us/politics/27reuters-usa-security-aclu.html

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I just put the text of this comment in the thread under The Guardian's reporting on this same breaking news story of today. As there are more trial court decisions on the NSA programs, it appears that there will be a split in results of those decisions among various trial courts. Those decisions can be appealed to the federal circuit appellate courts, where there may again be a split among the decisions. A circuit split[1] on an important issue of federal law, especially constitutional law, is one of the most reliable ways to prompt consideration of an issue by the United States Supreme Court. That court will have the last word[2] on this issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_split

[2] "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final." A saying by Justice H. Jackson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson

gremlinsinc13 lat temu

Anything's lawful, when corrupt politicians write the law. Ethical and moral? not so much.

I wonder how much dirt/money is paid to the judge by NSA proponents/backers/leaders to side on their side, when the vast majority of Americans are against it.

In fact aren't laws supposed to take the side of the majority? When the majority is against a law, shouldn't it fail to be a law? American's are fastly losing faith in our lawmakers, and like currency a law w/ no faith backing it isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I'm going to start manufacturing toilet paper w/ the Constitution on, and sell it to politicians, they already wipe their asses on the Constitution, might as well do it literally.