The recent ruling by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor that the NSA wiretapping program is unconstitutional was widely criticized (of course) by our administration and its supporters. Glenn Greenwald, 1st Amendment attorney, brings us
a technical refutation of one of the most widely-hailed critics of the decision, Orin Kerr. It turns out many of the critics against Taylor misdirected their attacks against her, because
the DOJ was too stupid to address the merits of the plantiffs' case, focused only on insisting that Taylor was unable to hear the case due to national security concerns. Also see former Dean of UChicago's Law School, and Constitutional law expert
Professor Geoffrey Stone, who says he is,
"confident Judge Taylor reached the right result as a matter of law"
Think lightning only hits believers
playing the part of Jesus, or
in church, or
praying at a cross?
Wrong.
In other news, the Anti-Defamation League has
issued a caustic chastisement against D. James Kennedy's portrayal of the link between evolution and the Holocaust. Kennedy also
disingenuously misrepresented Dr. Francis Collins' views, as well as inserting this interview with him without his knowledge into the documentary, then got caught and retracted.
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