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Sep. 6th, 2007 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanfrom the AP wire:
"A federal judge today struck down parts of the new U.S.A. Patriot Act that authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to acquire corporate records using informal secret demands called national security letters.
The law allowed the F.B.I. to force communications companies, including telephone and Internet providers, to turn over their customers’ records without court authorization and permanently to forbid the companies from discussing what they had done. Under the law, enacted last year, the ability of the courts to review challenges to the ban on disclosures was quite limited.
The judge, Victor Marrero of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, ruled that the law violated the First Amendment and the separation of powers guaranteed by the Constitution.
Judge Marrero wrote that he feared the law could be the first step in a series of intrusions into the role of the judiciary that would be 'the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.'"
Go Judge Vic!
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"A federal judge today struck down parts of the new U.S.A. Patriot Act that authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to acquire corporate records using informal secret demands called national security letters.
The law allowed the F.B.I. to force communications companies, including telephone and Internet providers, to turn over their customers’ records without court authorization and permanently to forbid the companies from discussing what they had done. Under the law, enacted last year, the ability of the courts to review challenges to the ban on disclosures was quite limited.
The judge, Victor Marrero of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, ruled that the law violated the First Amendment and the separation of powers guaranteed by the Constitution.
Judge Marrero wrote that he feared the law could be the first step in a series of intrusions into the role of the judiciary that would be 'the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.'"
Go Judge Vic!
more here
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Date: 2007-09-07 04:31 am (UTC)But woot, is it nice to see someone thrashing up the Patriot Act. :)
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Date: 2007-09-07 08:26 am (UTC)Go Judge Vic!
Date: 2007-09-09 03:59 pm (UTC)