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If this<\/a> isn’t a @#$@#$ anti-Constitution ruling, I don’t know what is.\u00a0 Federal judge William Pauley upheld the\u00a0 feds seizing all Americans phone records.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 “\u201cThis blunt tool only works because it collects everything,\u201d Pauley decreed. This\u00a0 dude should be a White House spokesman, not a federal judge.\u00a0 At least his decision, by creating a split among the federal circuits, boosts the chances of the Supreme Court taking the case.\u00a0\u00a0 But the Supremes utterly disgraced themselves on the surveillance issue earlier this year \u00a0so I am not holding my breath….<\/p>\n

The New York Times article on this ruling against the ACLU is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this isn’t a @#$@#$ anti-Constitution ruling, I don’t know what is.\u00a0 Federal judge William Pauley upheld the\u00a0 feds seizing all Americans phone records.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 “\u201cThis blunt tool only works because it collects everything,\u201d Pauley decreed. 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