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Sixth Circuit lifts injunction on NSA wiretapping program pending appeal

posted at 6:53 pm on October 4, 2006 by Allahpundit
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So what? Who cares if the progam can proceed for a few more months until the circuit hears the case and rules on the merits?

Hugh Hewitt explains the significance. Or you can just read the opinion for yourself if you prefer. It’s three paragraphs long.

This one’s getting overturned, baby. And then it’s on to the Supremes, where the Stevens/Souter/Ginsburg/Breyer wing and the Roberts/Scalia/Thomas/Alito wing will do their usual 4-4 split, once again leaving the fate of American law in the hands of Anthony Kennedy. And there’s no telling what he’ll do.

Actually, yes there is. He’ll vote with the liberals and declare the program unconstitutional.

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And then when the terrorists blow up the Supreme Court building, the surviving justices will ask “Why didn’t somebody do something to prevent this? Why weren’t we listening to their conversations?”

Tony737 on October 4, 2006 at 7:29 PM

AP, your Hewitt link points to something unrelated on Jeff G’s site. — Well, not totally unrelated since it involves another court case, but not what you probably meant to link to.

bdfaith on October 4, 2006 at 7:34 PM

once again the liberals will be protecting their terrorist freinds from the “evil” George Bush.

Starblazer on October 4, 2006 at 7:42 PM

[Anthony Kennedy]’ll vote with the liberals and declare the program unconstitutional.

The soft left-liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court had better enjoy their power while they still have it. I think the Americans will be cured of much of their softheadedness over the next ten years, as they watch Europe get eaten alive from the inside. So SCOTUS can throw the NSA wiretaps out with a pitchfork, but they’ll keep coming back. It’ll be sweet “irony” if advance warning from an NSA wiretap gives us time to airlift the Louvre’s art treasures, before the Submitted pile the rubble of the Louvre atop the rubble of the afghani Buddhas, in some corner of muslim Hell.

Kralizec on October 4, 2006 at 7:59 PM

And people who give up on the admittedly pathetic Republican party by not voting in November will make it hard, almost impossible, to replace the liberal wing.

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 4, 2006 at 8:37 PM

He’ll vote with the liberals and declare the program unconstitutional.

Only the warrantless part of it. Wiretapping, including emergency wiretapping where a court does not have to be informed beforehand, will live on. There will just be more paperwork to handle, after the fact (more than none, I mean).