{"id":21107,"date":"2014-01-03T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=21107"},"modified":"2014-01-03T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T02:12:14","slug":"federal-judges-ruled-nsa-show-reid-invoking-nuclear-option-means-trouble-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/federal-judges-ruled-nsa-show-reid-invoking-nuclear-option-means-trouble-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judges Who Ruled on NSA Show Why Reid Invoking Nuclear Option Means Trouble Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NSA<\/a><\/p>\n

Republican appointed judge<\/a> ruled in favor of the Constitution while the democrat appointed judge<\/a> ruled against the Constitution! Now that Reid has invoked the nuclear option you can expect more “Orwellian” decisions to come out of the court system! There will be far less Judge Leon’s being appointed and more Judge Pauley’s as we go forward under the obama regime! Reid will ensure the courts are stacked with radical judges to carry on the emperors legacy long after he has left office. America let this be a lesson that elections have consequences!
\n…..<\/p>\n

Judge Questions Legality of N.S.A. Phone Records<\/strong>
\nby Charlie Savage | NYT<\/a>
\nWASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A federal district judge ruled on Monday that the National Security Agency program that is systematically keeping records of all Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone calls most likely violates the Constitution, describing its technology as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153almost Orwellian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and suggesting that James Madison would be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aghast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to learn that the government was encroaching on liberty in such a way.<\/p>\n

The judge, Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered the government to stop collecting data on the personal calls of the two plaintiffs in the case and to destroy the records of their calling history. But Judge Leon, appointed to the bench in 2002 by President George W. Bush, stayed his injunction \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in light of the significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d allowing the government time to appeal it, which he said could take at least six months.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I cannot imagine a more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcindiscriminate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcarbitrary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Judge Leon wrote in a 68-page ruling. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Surely, such a program infringes on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthat degree of privacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures...more<\/a>
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\nNSA collection of phone data is lawful, federal judge rules<\/strong>
\nBy Sari Horwitz | WaPo<\/a>
\nA federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the massive collection of domestic telephone data brought to light by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is lawful, rejecting a challenge to the program by the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n

The decision marked a victory for the government less than two weeks after a District Court judge ruled against it, finding that the NSA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s program was almost certainly unconstitutional. If the split in rulings continues through the appeals process, it is likely the Supreme Court will have to decide the issue...more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican appointed judge ruled in favor of the Constitution while the democrat appointed judge ruled against the Constitution! Now that Reid has invoked the nuclear option you can expect more “Orwellian” decisions to come out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[15136,7377],"tags":[35538,35533,1156,35539,35540,35535,9937,34109,35534,35537,35541,35536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NSA-Judges-Did-You-Know.png?fit=1000%2C1000","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}