{"id":199111,"date":"2007-09-06T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/06\/good-news-on-the-civil-liberties-front\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T04:04:00","slug":"good-news-on-the-civil-liberties-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/06\/good-news-on-the-civil-liberties-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News on the Civil Liberties Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/latestheadlines\/ci_6817055?nclick_check=1\">Ruled parts of Patriot Act unconstitutional<\/a>, specifically the national security letters, which allow the state security apparatus to demand &#8220;business data&#8221; without a judicial review, and prevent those served from discussing this, even with their lawyers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the government orders must be subject to meaningful judicial review and that the recently rewritten Patriot Act &#8220;offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The law was written &#8220;reflects an attempt by Congress and the executive to infringe upon the judiciary&#8217;s designated role under the Constitution,&#8221; Marrero wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders how long before the Bush dogs come up with another version of these star chamber orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero Ruled parts of Patriot Act unconstitutional, specifically the national security letters, which allow the state security apparatus to demand &#8220;business data&#8221; without a judicial review, and prevent those served from discussing this, even with their lawyers. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the government orders must be subject to meaningful &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}