While it's been plainly obvious to anyone with a brain that Dubya's illegal wiretapping of law-abiding US citizens is, well, illegal, it's nice to see a court agree.
Of course, this will end up in the hands of Dubya's stooges in the Supreme Court, you will strike it down.
Because they're evil. Especially Scalia.
An Appeals panel gives the FCC a hard time over new Internet wiretap rules. Tells one lawyer that "Your argument makes no sense."
Great essay on the Dictatorial power that Dubya has grabbed.
The wisdom of the Second Amendment become clearer every day.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says that if you're homeless, you have a Constitutional right to sleep on public property.
Well, actually, it's more complicated than that. Criminalizing being homeless violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and punishment punishment.
While idiot Republicans work in the legislature to deny some Americans the right to marry, good folks work to guarantee that same right for everyone in the court system.
How do you stop Dubya from illegally spying on the citizens of your state? Take him to court over it.
Good luck with that. (Although, the tactic has worked in the past, according to the article.)
Essay and links detailing the Religous Right's plans to make the US even more of a theocracy than it already is.
You have a confessed terrorist. It's an open and shut case. So what do you do? If you're the Dubya administration, you jeopardize the whole thing by shamelessly coaching witnesses.
The federal judge hearing the case is on the verge of throwing is out, citing egregious violations:
"In all the years I've been on the bench, I've never seen such an egregious violation of the court's rules on witnesses."
Federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to release illegal domestic spying records by March 8 or provide an explanation.
So far, they haven't excelled at the explanation stuff.
An addition snuck into the Patriot Act allows Gonzales to decide whether some death row appeals should go through. Not a judge. A political appointee.
Faced with fewer folks volunteering to be cannon fodder in Iraq, the military has been making heavy use of the Stop-Loss policy. This policy allows them to require soldiers to remain in the military beyond their contracted number of years.
The courts are upholding this abusive policy.
The Dubya administration is claiming they had to illegally spy on US citizens because complying with the law and working with the FISA was just too darn hard.
Too bad the Justice Department said the opposite in 2002.
"Intelligent-Design," hiding as philosophy rather than science, takes a beating in the California courts.
Even the New York Times thinks Dubya and Alito are clearly bat-shit insane regarding the imperial Presidency.
Dubya's the only President, other than Garfield, to not veto anything. (Garfield was shot shortly after taking office.) Dubya doesn't have to veto anything. He just ignores any laws he doesn't like.
Who says? Dubya says. He's added interpretation statements to over 500 laws. Everyone now knows about the statement on the anti-torture law. But there have been over 500 previous times.
Outstanding debunking of all the excuses and lies the Right is using to excuse Dubya's illegal spying on Americans.
Lists the lies along with resources debunking them.
The judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) are upset that Dubya illegally went around them to pursue his domestic spying agenda. They're asking questions.
Don't they understand? Dubya is King.
A federal judge ruled that Darwinian evolution must be taught as fact in biology lessons in Dover, Pennsylvania.
Imagine that. Restricting science classes to science.
The scathing opinion closes with "Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom."
U.S. District Judge James Robertson sat on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The FISC is the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases. He quit in protest at the Dubya Administration's abusive domestic spying.
At least someone in the US government has a little integrity.
Fallacy of Strict Constitutionalism is the leading judicial theory among Republican stooges, ahem, judges. Strict Constitutionalism is neither strict nor constitutional. The linked essay examines the fallacy, both in fact and in theory.
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