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In reply to the discussion: Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law! [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)24. Nothing ever has anything to do with the President.
I feel sorry for him. It's a shame he really doesn't know anyone in Washington at all.
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Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law! [View all]
Better Believe It
Feb 2012
OP
True but since our rights are surrendered for us and sometimes done so covertly
TheKentuckian
Feb 2012
#4
Heh, even Saint Dennis Kucinich voted for H. J. Res. 64 which enabled warrentless wiretapping.
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#16
Do you seek out negative Obama/Democrat articles or are they sent to you?
great white snark
Feb 2012
#13
Maybe he is just looking for pro-democracy and pro-civil rights articles.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2012
#15
Do you have an opinion on the article or would you rather engage in drive-by personal attacks?
Better Believe It
Feb 2012
#17
What if the ACLU lost this case? Wouldn't it then become permanent as opposed to the possibility
FarLeftFist
Feb 2012
#18
Doesn't have anything to do with liberalism. That's besides the point anyway.
FarLeftFist
Feb 2012
#26
Yeah, the conservatives are going to come down hard against a warrantless wiretapping bill..
Fumesucker
Feb 2012
#45
I thought this has been litigated during the Bush era already. BTW, the White House doesn't...
Honeycombe8
Feb 2012
#22
Remember how everyone was upset when Bush/Cheney got Republicans hired into the DOJ....
Honeycombe8
Feb 2012
#27
Right and the POTUS gains nothing by simply having the DOJ roll over on the case
treestar
Feb 2012
#41
Everybody knows the ACLU is jampacked with troublemaking "professional leftists".
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2012
#32
They want selective justice. If a Republican didn't challenge some despotic law...
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#47