BREAKING: Court allows ACLU challenge to FISA Amendments Act warrantless wiretapping law to proceed

[Ian David]

Source: ACLU (via Twitter)

BREAKING: Court allows ACLU challenge to FISA Amendments Act warrantless wiretapping law to proceed http://bit.ly/pBJTbK More soon!

Read more: http://twitter.com/#!/ACLU/status/116540982769623040

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[dpbrown]

1. Didn't this happen in March?

That's the last news on the Interwebs about this.

[JDPriestly]

3. Go to the link. Last item at the link.

[midnight]

2. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Ian David.

[me b zola]

5. K&R

[YvonneCa]

6. ...

... :)

[Jefferson23]

7. K&R thanks for posting. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

8. K/R

[Ian David]

9. Federal Appeals Court Allows ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law to Proceed

Federal Appeals Court Allows ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law to Proceed

September 21, 2011

Decision to Deny Rehearing Upholds Ruling That Plaintiffs Have Standing to Challenge FISA Amendments Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: [phone]; [e-mail]

NEW YORK – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today denied the government's request that all of the court's judges rehear a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), a law that gives the executive branch virtually unchecked power to collect Americans' international emails and telephone calls. In March, a three-judge panel of the court unanimously ruled the plaintiffs have the right to challenge the constitutionality of the law.

ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, "The government's surveillance practices should not be immune from judicial review, and this decision ensures that they won't be. The law we've challenged permits the government to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans' international communications, and it has none of the safeguards that the Constitution requires. Now that the appeals court has reaffirmed that our clients have the right to challenge the law, we look forward to pressing that challenge in the trial court."

In his opinion concurring with the denial of rehearing en banc, Judge Gerard E. Lynch wrote, "It is the glory of our system that even our elected leaders must defend the legality of their conduct when challenged. Short-circuiting that process risks not only that we will be governed by unconstitutional laws, but also that legitimate exercises of the lawmaking power will exist under a cloud, undispelled by the light of objective reasoning."

More information about the ACLU lawsuit challenging the FAA is available at:

www.aclu.org/national-security/amnesty-et-al-v-clapper

More:
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/federal-appeals-court-allows-aclu-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping-law-proceed

[No Elephants]

16. Conflicted here. I love the ACLU, but the SCOTUS, not so much.

In my book, the fewer things this SCOTUS rules on, the better.

If I were involved in a case involving any kind of issue important to the country, I'd consider my duty as an American to settle out of court or flee to a foreign land, or do anything at all to keep this corrupt, evil, partisan court from getting its mitts on the case.

[avaistheone1]

10. YES!!

:kick: :kick: :kick: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[lame54]

11. Thanks for the post and a big K&R

[dpbrown]

12. Got it. Thanks!

Passed it along.

[chill_wind]

13. Great quote from the judge

in March.

In his opinion concurring with the denial of rehearing en banc, Judge Gerard E. Lynch wrote, "It is the glory of our system that even our elected leaders must defend the legality of their conduct when challenged. Short-circuiting that process risks not only that we will be governed by unconstitutional laws, but also that legitimate exercises of the lawmaking power will exist under a cloud, undispelled by the light of objective reasoning."

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/federal-appeals-court-allows-aclu-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping-law-proceed

[lonestarnot]

14. Wow.

[usregimechange]

15. Including quite a few Obama nominees I would suspect