Court Rejects Ohio Domestic Spying Suit
By LISA CORNWELL
Associated Press Writer
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.
The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a 2006 order by a lower court in Detroit, which had found the post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity to be unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech and the separation of powers.
U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, one of the two Republican appointees who ruled against the plaintiffs, said they failed to show they were subject to the surveillance and therefore do not have standing for their claims.
As Cliff's friend Kagro X over at Kos said, "Let the courts settle it!" isn't working any more.
posted by Paddy @ 11:17 AM
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I just pulled out all my hair. I am now bald.
Btw, one of the judges (sorry, I just heard this on Hartmann and didn't catch the name, or if it was limited to only one)said that they completely agreed that Bush acted illegally. It's that the ACLU didn't have standing to sue. Period. That was the issue.
Not that it helps, but at least there was agreement on what a criminal Bush is.
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