That says it all. It's a clear 4th amendment case.
Too many intercepted messages, I suppose, among the 9 justices.
This court needs to deal with this. Maybe next year with a different case. They had no problem jumping in to cases about the treatment of foreign prisoners at us facilities in the Bush years and helped sort out allowable and disallowed practices. The same should be true here. Lines need to be drawn and the bureaucracy is not doing it effectively.
“You take this case and we will spill the beans about X, Y, and Z....”
The Supreme Court is OWNED!!! Obamacare taught us this valuable lesson...
Can’t blame them. Can you imagine the crap the NSA has collected about them? Everyone is in fear of the nsa, congress and the preezy included.
Obviously, the majority on our pathetic SOTUS has something to hide. At least this avoids the embarrassment of having Chief Wimp Roberts issue another blatantly unconstitutional ruling as in the ObamaCare tax debacle.
They know Obama and the NSA are on to all their dirty little secrets.
No reason to actually render a decision backing the NSA when they can accomplish the same thing this way.
Roberts was the worst mistake Bush ever made.
How can they get away with this?
The Supreme Court is like a referee on a football field. The Congress, the President, the state police, and other government officials are the players. Some can pass laws, and others can enforce laws. But all exercise power within certain boundaries. These boundaries are set by the Constitution. As the “referee” in the U.S. system of government, it is the Supreme Court’s job to say when government officials step out-of-bounds.
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Which the Caliph will ignore, as he ignores any law that does not suit his purposes.
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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.
They are as political as the rest. Biased, cowardly, imposing their will on the masses when they can get away with it.
Appointed for life, senile, affirmative action’d, yet they still can’t take a moral, Constitutional stand.
There are no checks and balances now. The Rat senate does whatever their Rat leader says. The House GOP just pays lip service. Everyone in government is getting rich; no reason to stop the gravy train.
Ever wonder why we’re losing every time? I mean, shouldn’t a court case or house vote go our way now and then? No, not when you consider that the “long march through the institutions” as succeeded. What ever meager wins we get will only be to keep most of us somewhat pacified.
We’ve been playing a rigged game. We’re a laughing stock.
So, we are basically out of options for government protection of our rights. I guess it is now up to us.
I wonder who paid them off.
All three branches of government are corrupt to the core.
Leave it alone, Jim. You've already done enough.
Of course they won’t take the case! The NBA obtained info this way to blackmail them. Just ask Roberts.