Judge throws out one of the cases against AT&T saying that making AT&T disclose whether they've been helping the government illegally spy on its own citizens would somehow help our enemies.
It's a secret police state. There's no other way to put it.
The Supreme Court was hearing a case that involved the Vice President. At the same time, Justice Scalia was duck hunting with the Vice President. Scalia refused to recuse himself from the case, despite the glaringly obvious conflict of interest.
And how does Scalia feel about this refusal to recuse?
"I think the proudest thing I have done on the bench is not allow myself to be chased off that case."
Judge Robert Wirtz shuts down web site due to anonymous postings that Clerk of Courts Diane Fremgen says are libel.
This violates all sorts of First Amendment protections.
Judge James Robertson, one of the FISA judges, resigned in disgust over Dubya's illegal domestic spying program.
Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed a replacement. It's Judge John Bates, former deputy for Ken Starr during the Whitewater witchhunt.
Bates doesn't give a damn about privacy. Neither did Starr. Neither does Roberts.
In Mississippi, it's still illegal to sell sex toys. That's according to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Can't have them womenfolk gettin' themselves off.
Sandra Day O'Connor says that Republicans "challenge the independence of judges and the freedoms of all Americans."
True. But, gee, maybe she should have thought about that before handing the Presidency to Dubya.
The Patriot Act: It's not just for terrorists anymore.
Federal judges decide that individual courts can use the Patriot Act to order e-mails and computer data searches anywhere in the country for any type of crime. Any type of crime at all.
Welcome to the Police State.
Rehnquist spent his early years trying to prevent minorities from voting. Big surprise. He spent his later years doing the same thing.
Update on the judge who ruled that a child's parents were not allowed to expose their son to out-of-mainstream religious beliefs.
Unanimously overruled by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Well, duh.
Both parents are Wiccans. (Not Pagans, as the headline suggests.) But the judge is forbidding them to expose their own child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." Freedom of religion? What freedom of religion?
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