
“When a FISA court judge rules that the NSA has the constitutional power to spy on Americans about whom it has no evidence of wrongdoing, as one judge did two weeks ago, because that ruling did not emanate out of a case or controversy — no one was in court to dispute it — the court is without authority to hear the matter, and thus the ruling is meaningless. By altering the constitutionally mandated requirement of the existence of a case or controversy before the jurisdiction of the federal courts may be invoked, Congress has lessened the protection of the right to be left alone that the Framers intentionally sought to enshrine.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/26/is-fisa-court-constitutional/
Related posts:
2014: The First Year of the 21st Century Dark Age
Policing Prosecutors
Bill Bonner: Thank You, TSA, NSA, FBI, and CIA!
Pot And Pregnancy: It’s Harmless, So Why Are Moms Still Prosecuted?
If the Law Is This Complicated, Why Shouldn’t Ignorance Be an Excuse?
Jeffrey Tucker: The Freedom of Rose Wilder Lane
Hidden Erosion of Corporate Worth Since U.S. Abandoned Money
Eric Margolis: Obama, Don't Play Chess With KGB
Jacob Hornberger: Why Kennedy Had to Be Removed
The Global Status Quo Strategy: Do More of What Has Failed Spectacularly
Peter Schiff: The GDP Distractor
Ron Paul on the Evolution of Freedom in the 21st Century
The Corruption of Capitalism in America Excerpt: Chapter 17, Serial Bubbles
Kill Wasteful Missile Defense Efforts
Truth and Consequences of Fed Money Printing