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In reply to the discussion: Transcript of the Edward Snowden portion of my show this week [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)has refused to take up because it agrees with them.
Dozens, probably over a hundred.
Do you understand why?
The appellate courts view this as a conflict between Article two, section 2 of the Constitution and the fourth amendment. Since none of the rights in the amendments matter if the country is not secure and the item that provides the article two section 2 question is the security of the country, the courts side with article two section 2. And that will continue as long as there is an existential threat. The courts regard FISA as enough to provide a paper trail that congress can use to check the President's power.
I gave you the Duggan decision and the specific excerpt so you could see how many citations of similarly decided appellate cases are just in that one decision.
The law and Constitutional rights are not what you and other Snowden supporters are trying to assert that they are. And by the way, trying to argue with me about it won't help.