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Federal Judge rules NSA surveillance unconstitutional!
ABC Radio News | 8/17/2006 | ABC Radio News

Posted on 08/17/2006 9:06:43 AM PDT by sinkspur

A federal district judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration's NSA surveillance of phone conversations is unconstitutional.


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To: dead
"court really has no say on how the Commander-in-chief of the military chooses to conduct intelligence gathering on the enemy in a time of war."

That's the way it should be, but this is PC-Liberal media-controlled 2006 America, and the rules bend to the polls.

I have concern, too, like others, that under the guise of a permanent-war-on-terror, the government COULD use this (the Commander-in-Chief-in-time-of-War) to overtake many civil liberties, but I believe that it NEEDS to be in place at this time.

We MUST have every intelligence tool possibly available in place to prevent and prosecute attempts to co-ordinate, plan, and/or carry out attacks on U.S. assets and citizens here AND abroad.

Keep in mind that if we have another useless socialist/liberal Democrat in the White House, we would be back to the Klintoon era of FBI file gathering, database building, and destruction of any semblance of personal freedoms by their opponents.....that's the problem that could come of un-limited authorization to the President.

41 posted on 08/17/2006 9:17:18 AM PDT by traditional1
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To: Uncle Vlad

Oh, people will get it...but there will be others who will participate in hand-wringing, wondering what we've done to bring this upon ourselves, and blame Bush.


42 posted on 08/17/2006 9:17:22 AM PDT by jnygrl
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To: Republican Red
"The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers who say the program has made it difficult for them to do their jobs."

BS
43 posted on 08/17/2006 9:17:28 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Republican Red

She's a Carter appointee. Figures. The government will almost certainly appeal and win.


44 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:11 AM PDT by kesg
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To: AliVeritas

CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY, CARTER APPOINTEE..JUDGE SHOPPING!

Biography:

An attorney and judge, Anna Diggs Taylor was the first African-American woman appointed to a federal judgeship in Michigan and later became the first African-American woman to be named chief federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan. Taylor has used her positions to advance civil rights throughout the United States.

Born Anna Katherine Johnston in 1932 in Washington, D.C., Taylor grew up in a household in which politics and civil rights were highly valued. Her parents sent her to private school in Massachusetts because they felt she needed a greater challenge than the local schools provided. She graduated in 1950 from Northfield School for Girls in Massachusetts and then enrolled at Barnard College where she earned a B.A. in Economics. She entered Yale University Law School and earned her law degree in 1957. After graduation she could not find a job in a private law firm due to the prejudices against African Americans and women. She found work as a solicitor for the Department of Labor, working under J. Ernest Wilkins, the first African American to hold a sub-cabinet post in the United States government. In 1960 Taylor married United States Representative Charles Diggs, Jr., and she moved to Detroit.

After moving to Detroit, Taylor worked for a year as an assistant county prosecutor in Wayne County. In 1964 she spent the summer in Mississippi as part of the National Lawyers Guild civil rights program to provide legal services for civil rights activists, arriving on the day that three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. When Taylor and other attorneys went to the sheriff's office to ask about the disappearance they were surrounded by a crowd of angry whites, who hurled racial epithets at Taylor and her companions. In 1966 Taylor became assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

After the birth of her daughter, she worked managing her husband's Detroit office until their divorce in 1971. From 1970 to 1975 she was a partner in the law firm Zwerdling, Mauer, Diggs, and Papp. In 1976 she married S. Martin Taylor. Taylor became active in politics, helping Coleman Young in his 1973 campaign and Jimmy Carter in his 1976 victory. After Young's election, Taylor was named special counsel to the City of Detroit and then in 1975 accepted the full time position as assistant corporation counsel for the city. She successfully defended new city policies that established affirmative action hiring practices and outlawed discrimination in two private yacht clubs located on city-owned Belle Isle. Taylor became the first African-American women named to a Michigan federal court on November 15, 1979, when she was sworn in as a federal judge to the U.S. District Court for the Eastren District of Michigan. In 1997 she became the first African-American woman to be named chief judge of Eastern District of the United States District Court. In 1998 Taylor stepped down as chief judge in order to reduce her workload. She continued to serve as a senior federal judge.

http://www.daahp.wayne.edu/biographiesDisplay.asp?id=64


45 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:21 AM PDT by hipaatwo (Kofi anti-Semite who sucks up to Arab dictators and presides over UN choking on its own filth-JPod)
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To: rottndog

Here she is

http://www.micourthistory.org/resources/women-and-law/taylor.php

Oh goody.


46 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:25 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: Republican Red
Taylor, Anna Katherine Johnston Diggs

Born 1932 in Washington, DC

Federal Judicial Service: Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Nominated by Jimmy Carter on May 17, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; Confirmed by the Senate on October 31, 1979, and received commission on November 2, 1979. Served as chief judge, 1996-1998. Assumed senior status on December 31, 1998.

Education: Barnard College, B.A., 1954

Yale Law School, LL.B., 1957

Professional Career:

Attorney, Office of Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, 1957-1960
Assistant Wayne County prosecutor, Michigan, 1961-1962
Assistant U.S. attorney, Detroit, Michigan, 1966
Legislative assistant / Detroit office manager, U.S. Rep. Charles C. Diggs, Jr., 1967-70
Private practice, Detroit, Michigan, 1970-1975
Adjunct professor, Wayne State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1972-1975
Supervising assistant corporation counsel, City of Detroit, Law Department, 1975-1979
Adjunct professor, Wayne State University Law School, 1976-1977

Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Female

47 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:32 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: Uncle Vlad

I know the first response to THAT headline:

"Bush's fault, women and children suffer the most"


48 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:42 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Republican Red
Taylor's bio (Carter appointee):

Prior to her appointment to the Federal Court in 1979, Judge Taylor was a private practitioner, a legislative assistant, an Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor, an Assistant United States Attorney, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School, and an Assistant Corporation Counselor, City of Detroit. She is a 1950 Graduate of the Northfield School for Girls, East Northfield, Massachusetts, and received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1954 and L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1957. Judge Taylor was appointed to the bench on November 2, 1979.

She is a Trustee of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan and the Henry Ford Health System.

She is a member of the State Bar (Committees on Character and Fitness and on U.S. Courts), Federal Bar, Wolverine Bar, Black Judges Association and Women Judges Association.

49 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:51 AM PDT by kevkrom (War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)
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To: Republican Red
Clearly a case of the justice stepping out of bounds that higher courts than hers have previously deleniated.

Let her try to enforce her opinion.

50 posted on 08/17/2006 9:18:52 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
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To: michigander

Judge in this case is U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor. In 1979, three years after she campaigned for Jimmy Carter's presidential bid, Carter rewarded Taylor with a lifetime appointment to U.S. District Court in Detroit.


51 posted on 08/17/2006 9:19:09 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: jnygrl

Right now Scalia is probably thinking, with reference to Judge Taylor, "Bring it on!"


52 posted on 08/17/2006 9:19:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: hipaatwo

God help us. Her bio says she worked on the Jimmy Carter campaign!!Gimme a break.


53 posted on 08/17/2006 9:19:29 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: sinkspur

This citizen declares this judge to be an idiot and incompetent.


54 posted on 08/17/2006 9:20:01 AM PDT by MinstrelBoy (You, sir, are a villain. You, sir, are a senator.)
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To: Republican Red
Anna Diggs Taylor

In 1979, Anna Diggs Taylor became the first black woman judge to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Nineteen years later, she became the first black woman Chief Judge for that circuit as well.1


55 posted on 08/17/2006 9:20:09 AM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore, even if they don't know it)
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To: sinkspur

judicial shopping. I bet this will be reversed quickly.


56 posted on 08/17/2006 9:21:21 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: All

Judge: Wiretap Program Unconstitutional
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/17/national/a090059D26.DTL


57 posted on 08/17/2006 9:21:33 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Talk to those who kill their own children, by Jihad/PR ? Remember Beslan.)
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To: sinkspur

Pathetic little twerp judge that will get overruled faster than you can say 'speeding bullet'.


58 posted on 08/17/2006 9:21:45 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: mystery-ak
Why Detroit?Probably judge shopped.
59 posted on 08/17/2006 9:22:10 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Republican Red

Ok, now I get it, after seeing the pic: liberal black female, couldn't resist a chance to "get" Bush. The verdict was a foregone conclusion with this judge; judge shopping, indeed.


60 posted on 08/17/2006 9:22:13 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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