ACLU Begs Supreme Court to Review NSA Wiretapping Case

ACLU Begs Supreme Court to Review NSA Wiretapping Case

After getting struck down for a case with no standing, the ACLU keeps pushing, as they beg the Supreme Court to take the case. The Supreme Court should refuse it leaving the ACLU with the lower court’s correct ruling, however they may take it just because of the international attention this has gotten.

The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance activities. The case was filed on behalf of prominent journalists, scholars, attorneys and national advocacy organizations charging that the government’s illegal surveillance activities disrupt their ability to communicate effectively with sources and clients. Although the groups submitted uncontested evidence that the government’s illegal surveillance activities had compromised their ability to do their jobs, an appeals court dismissed the case last July because the plaintiffs could not state with certainty that they had been wiretapped by the National Security Agency.

First of all, the above statement is anything but factual. There was no ‘uncontested evidence’ that the government did anything illegal and therefore no evidence that it comprimised their jobs. In other words, just as the court ruled, this case had absolutely zero standing. Simple. I’ve never been to law school and I can understand this much…matter of fact said it way before this ever went to court.

The ACLU go on to repeat themselves and quote from their favorite Judge Anna Diggs Taylor who ordered the president to shut down the program. Her ruling was later shot down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. This court stated the obvious. The case should have never been allowed as the clients had no standing to begin with.