A Federal judge has refused a DOJ motion claiming that the courts cannot hear any suits against the ongoing NSA spy programs because such suits might damage national security. The judge ruled that the case can go on and she won't consider the defense motion until after at least the first hearing to determine whether a summary judgement will be issued. In other words, the judge is rejecting the administration's argument that the courts should refuse to rule without ever seeing the legal or factual circumstances. Bravo to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor.
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For readers in the greater San Jose (California) region, I wanted to pass along a call for judges for the Synopsis Championship, scheduled to take place next Wednesday, March 12.
Good ol' Gribbit repeats this one ridiculous argument that is par for the course among the STACLU crowd: the notion that the ACLU intentionally files cases in "ACLU friendly districts":
For those of you readers in the San Francisco Bay Area:
What would possess someone to take two days off of work, drive or fly to the competition city
Those darn activist judges! They actually want to know what the facts are before they rule on something!
Why does she hate our troops so much : P