Friday, August 18, 2006

A victory for the 4th Amendment... stay tuned

A federal judge in Detroit ruled that the NSA's domestic surveillance program violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution:

“There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” she wrote, rejecting what she called the administration’s assertion that the president “has been granted the inherent power to violate not only the laws of the Congress but the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution itself.”

And Mark Green discusses the factors that are endanger our democracy on The Huffington Post.

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