Politics!
My new favorite person: Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of United States District Court in Detroit.
She has ruled that "the National Security Agency’s program to wiretap the international communications of some Americans without a court warrant violated the Constitution, and she ordered it shut down." YAY!
Full Article Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Best Quote: “There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” she wrote, rejecting what she called the administration’s assertion that the president “has been granted the inherent power to violate not only the laws of the Congress but the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution itself.”
She has ruled that "the National Security Agency’s program to wiretap the international communications of some Americans without a court warrant violated the Constitution, and she ordered it shut down." YAY!
Full Article Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Best Quote: “There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” she wrote, rejecting what she called the administration’s assertion that the president “has been granted the inherent power to violate not only the laws of the Congress but the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution itself.”