Posted on 04/07/2014 9:15:07 AM PDT by xzins
Roberts was the worst mistake Bush ever made.
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Yes. I often pondered a some sort of mechanism for a popular impeachment of justices. The Founders grossly underestimated the judiciary’s capacity for mischief.
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This has been an extremely poorly reported story and it presents a completely new issue for which there is no precedent on point. How does the 4th Amendment deal with computer metadata? Is it like a pen register that gets no constituional protection or is it like a wiretap that does?
The answer should not be a shot from the hip, but a thoughtful decision based on a thoroughly developed record, perhaps after several Circuits have ruled. A direct appeal from a single district court decision is not a good idea.
“How can they get away with this?”
They are either cowards or lazy, or most likely both.
They also refused to hear the gay marriage case.
They probably just want to keep their schedules open so they can go golfing with the kenian.
Because if in doing so they step in and circumvent the lower courts they setva horrible precedent and open the doors to circumvent the lower courts that much wider.
With a Conservative Court, that sort of thing would work for us. With a Liberal Court not so much, and we’d all scream bloody murder about it. Just like we did when the Dem Congress eff’d with all sorts of precedent to ram Obamacare through, and as we did when Reid and the Senate Dems pulled the trigger on the nuclear rule.
Which the Caliph will ignore, as he ignores any law that does not suit his purposes.
I don’t think there’s anything to develop. The NSA is getting warrants or they aren’t. That’s either a violation of the 4th amendment or it isn’t.
Let them rule and not stall.
Or he'll take one word out of paragraph 4(a)(1) "listen", and enforce that.
+1
And I’d add that altho Larry Klayman may have done a lot of good things, and I may agree with him most of the time, he’s still very much a drama queen. Throwing a hissy fit over not being given a special express train to the SCOTUS is yet another example.
See #27
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What I'm told by my IT people is I need to scrub every document I send someone because if I don't they can read my metadata. That doesn't sound like we have any reasonable expectation of privacy in what we put out on the internet and if not there is no Fourth Amendment protection. Do you want the Court to rule on that basis?
It's GOOD to have files on everyone...
Rule #1: no one is allowed into any position with any real power unless they are thoroughly compromised. Judges included. I’ve had opportunity to see some judges who, once obvious and blatant abuse of a defendant’s rights is exposed by police and/or prosecution, will tear them a new one at the bench or sidebar. Not because he was looking out for the defendants rights, but because the judge knew he was going to have to rule in favor or the prosecution in order to cover up that abuse because someone needed their ass covered. At some point in the future, students of history will look back on our “just us” system for the pile of hypocrisy and fraud that it is and wonder why it was allowed to go on for so long.
It’s not going to get cured easily.
Darn you! That’s a much better graphic than the one I posted!
Yes but even worse is making Roberts chief justice. Bush should have made Clarence Thomas chief justice.
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Yep.
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