Elections Blog

You can look at it as a necessary step on the way to the Supreme Court ruling on this very important program, as the Washington Post did:
THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency’s program of warrantless surveillance. The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; [...]

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Chalk this one up as a (temporary) victory for the foes of the ‘imperial presidency’:
A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional, and she ordered that it cease at once.
District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor found that President Bush exceeded his proper authority and that the eavesdropping [...]

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