U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor for US Supreme Court Justice

[BurtWorm]

She's the one who ruled warrantless NSA wiretapping unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt of it:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006608070381

Most of the accomplishments of her 49-year legal career, Taylor said, resulted from good luck and heeding the advice of her junior high school English teacher -- work hard, get good grades and the doors of opportunity will open.

Even for a black woman in the segregated 1940s and '50s.

Now, the 73-year-old matronly judge who has spent her career shunning the spotlight is back in the media glare.

Any day now, she's expected to rule on the American Civil Liberties Union's request to strike down the Bush administration's controversial domestic spying program. The ruling could affect the civil rights of millions of Americans and alter the course of the administration's war on terror.

Although Taylor is a liberal with Democratic roots and defended civil-rights workers in the South in the 1960s, people who know her say she will follow the law -- not her politics -- in deciding the case.

"She'll rule based on what the law requires, not on what people perceive her biases to be," Southfield lawyer Harold Pope III said last week. Pope is a former president of the National Bar Association, a prominent black lawyers' group.

[acmavm]

1. Oh whoa!

[BurtWorm]

2. kick

[MiniMe]

3. Anybody know who appointed her?

Go Judge Anna!!

You Rock!

[BurtWorm]

5. Here's an article from her hometown paper about her

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006608070381

In 1979, three years after she campaigned for Jimmy Carter's presidential bid, Carter rewarded Taylor with a lifetime appointment to U.S. District Court in Detroit.

Taylor was the first black female federal district judge in the U.S. 6th Circuit, comprising Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

[MiniMe]

7. Thanks! nt

[nc_gadfly]

4. (applause)

damn those activist judges!!

[newyawker99]

6. Hi nc_gadfly!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: