* on the news .... "I believe our appeals will be upheld"

[Botany]

Appeals???????????????

:banghead:

I thought it was AN APPEAL and what court can possibly allow something
that is blantently unconstitutional to stand?

He sounded really pissed too.

[jsamuel]

1. what he means to say is that the decision will be overturned

"appeals upheld"... :DUH!!!:

:banghead:

[Shakespeare]

2. His terminology is backwards, too (shocker).

An appeal is granted; a ruling is upheld.

[Botany]

4. thank you

I knew it sounded weird.

No wonder all those years ago the Dean of University of Texas
Law School wrote him a letter saying that he did not care who
his Daddy was and how much money he had .... he did not
qualify to get into Law School

[sgxnk]

3. the final arbiter for constitutional law appeals is the SCOTUS

there is more than one level of the appeals process

this issue will go up the chain

[Virginia Dare]

13. Cheney is organizing the hunting party...

with Scalia as we speak.:evilgrin:

[spanone]

5. and I believe in the Easter Bunny.

[eShirl]

6. he also believes Iraq is going swell

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I asked this on another thread...

Does an appeal have to go to the Circuit Court before it gets to the Supremes? That's how any normal appeal of a federal district court decision would go. Maybe that's what he was talking about when he said "appeals".

[Botany]

8. might be ....

.... he figures that he can get it to the SCOTUS and "they" will do what he wants.

BTW any word on the 04 vote in Alaska?

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Not yet...

Kay Brown had a good editorial in the paper last week about the lawsuit, and of course Satan Leman had a rebuttal today saying that everything's all hunky-dory with the machines and he doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. Same ol', same ol'.

We've actually been having more fun lately watching the Republican gubernatorial candidates beat each other up in preparation for the primary on Tuesday. Murkowski is taking a pounding and has come out with some ridiculously negative ads against Sarah Palin and John Binkley, his opponents. Binkley is hammering Palin over her lack of experience. Sarah just smiles, enjoying her double-digit lead (for the moment). Their "unity picnic" a couple weekends ago turned into a brawl. I just love it when Republicans rip each other's hearts out. :evilgrin:

[5X]

9. He is two points short of an IQ. n/t

[Disturbed]

11. In the meantime will "Spying" continue without

warrents?

[MrCoffee]

12. Yes and No...

The ACLU agreed to a temporary stay of the order until the judge decides whether to stay the order herself until the appeal is ruled on. That hearing will take place September 7.

So the warrantless wiretaps can go on until then. On 9/7, the judge will hold a hearing to determine whether she should "permanently" stay execution of the order until the appeal. IF she does, they can keep tapping. If she does not stay execution, tapping has to stop.

[MrCoffee]

10. He's probably banking on the 6th Circuit affirming the lower court.

Crossing my fingers.