The Atlantic :Is the NSA’s Spying Constitutional?
Rutherford Institute Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Ensure that Lawful Gun Ownership Is Not a Trigger for ‘No-Knock’ Police Raids
December 30, 2013Do You Make New Years Resolutions?
December 31, 2013The Atlantic :Is the NSA’s Spying Constitutional?
It Depends Which Judge You Ask
Two recent rulings draw diametrically opposed conclusions about the same set of facts.
Andrew Cohen Dec 27 2013, 2:57 PM ET
A protester listens to NSA officials testify before the House Intelligence Committee in October. (Reuters)
We have, in the span of just 10 days, seen two diametrically opposed judicial rulings about the legitimacy of the government’s controversial bulk metadata collection program, the existence of which we learned about just this past year thanks to Edward Snowden. Although the two opinions apply the same law and essentially the same facts, they are so contradictory they cannot be reconciled. One judge will be proven right and the other proven wrong, although I suspect it may be 2015 before the final tally is recorded.
Read the entire article here:
