Category Archives: Phone Data Unconstitutional

Our government is organized as 3 branches: The Executive, the Congress and the Judiciary. Each branch is separate and autonomous from the other and serves as a check and balance for each other. The federal judge ruled the acts of the NSA was unconstitutional. To ask another branch to influence a ruling violates the separation…

Doesn't want to make the final decision?  I thought that was what these judges were--the final arbiters of all things Constitutional.  Why? Because that power was ceded to them; not in the Constitution that way.

I'm not all that knowledgeable about this idea of making a "sort of" decision that a policy is "likely" unconstitutional and then immediately "staying" that decision. Is this typical or common? Sounds like judicial schizophrenia to a layman like me.

If the action is illegal, it is illegal, period.  What credible judge stays his own ruling?

As for the NSA collection of phone records, if it is unconstitutional then the decision should stand.  The federal government is in violation and therefore should be held accountable.

This ruling by U. S. District Court Judge Richard Leon is a positive step in asserting individual rights under the Fourth Amendment, which states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon…