Posted on 07/10/2018 9:26:56 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trumps Supreme Court nominee, forcefully defended the National Security Agencys dragnet collection of domestic call records, alarming privacy advocates who view the collection as unconstitutional.
Its not yet clear if Kavanaughs November 2015 concurrence while serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will factor prominently in his confirmation proceedings. But before he was nominated, progressive and conservative advocates expressed concern.
I believe Judge Kavanaugh is an excellent judge, though certainly not a perfect one, Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, told the Washington Examiner last week. "His Fourth Amendment perspective is troubling."
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“Judge Brett Kavanaugh... forcefully defended the National Security Agencys dragnet collection of domestic call records.”
Actually, there is not much choice when the politicians have cheerfully allowed in hundreds of thousands of questionable immigrants that enjoy plotting to destroy the Great Satan.
It was about using META DATA as a tool for surveillance of potential terrorists, not what the NSA under Obama was doing, which I believe he would oppose.
Metadata was the camel’s nose under the tent...but NSA has Congress blackmailed so deeply at this point that the issue has become academic.
RE: Metadata was the camels nose under the tent...
OK, let’s say we don;t use meta data and we don’t do surveillance on phone calls to potential terrorists... what are the better alternatives to preventing terrorist attacks?
Stop funding terrorists—that would be a good start!
Frankly, I am more concerned about Obama and Comey unmasking political opponents to spy on them , than I am about unspecific metadata.
Plus the court is always stuck with the law congress passed. If congress passed crap then congress pass d crap. Not the courts responsibility to rewrite it
Swamper
RE: Stop funding terroriststhat would be a good start!
Tell Congress and the President that, not Kavanaugh.
Dont let them in the country to begin with and deport the ones that are here now. We know who the terroists are and where they come from. Raze the training camps, they call them mosques.
There is absolutely nothing innocent about metadata
I trust the President on his pick but the nominee has some uphill explaining to do with this one. He is also a big supporter of stare decisis from what Ive heard. Stare decisis is a good concept as long as you have honest jurists to start with, otherwise its just a mechanism to defend the tyranny of illegitimate decisions. In our case its the latter.
#5, Well, lets see. I know of two very large Cases in the last few years where HUMAN INTEL. and a Federal agency could have stopped acts of terror. They had Intel but refused to act.
Boston Marathon Bombing
Parkland
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh... forcefully defended the National Security Agencys dragnet collection of domestic call records.
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Actually, there is not much choice when the politicians have cheerfully allowed in hundreds of thousands of questionable immigrants that enjoy plotting to destroy the Great Satan.
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I have yet to recall any govt agency/dept/program/service that HASN’T morphed beyond its authorized powers.
Nor any arrests by the FBI/DOJ, nor “correction” by the party of ‘small govt’
This is one of the decisions that I have to read through for myself the next few days. It is troubling to me, to say the least, at least on the surface.
... and a lot more specificity in it than most people want to believe.
My gut instinct says no to kavanagh. His would be a swing vote.
The Constitution does NOT allow for spying on people.
Too many weird issues with this guy. I have a feeling Trump has a better one behind the curtain.
This guy needs extreme vetting - from the right.
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