Once again a court has found that the Bush administration, in its efforts to protect the country after 9/11, acted in ways at odds with the Constitution.I don't think this ruling will stand. It sounds like a typical decision issued by the radical liberals of the court.
As our colleague Carol J. Williams reports today, a federal court found that John Ashcroft, then-attorney general, violated the rights of U.S. citizens by ordering arrests on material witness warrants when the government lacked probable cause.
Williams writes that a three-judge panel called Ashcroft’s detention policy “repugnant to the Constitution, and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.”
The judges — all appointed by Republican presidents — found that Ashcroft could be sued for prosecutorial abuses.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Ninth Circus Tees One Up for The Supremes
The most reversed circuit court (outside of anything Sonia Sotomayor ruled on) has once again set themselves up for a Supreme Court slapdown:
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There's a different view on this decision offered here:
http://patterico.com/2009/09/05/l-a-timess-carol-williams-badly-misstates-holding-of-federal-decision-regarding-john-ashcroft/
to the effect that Carol J. Williams has completely re-interpreted the facts to support the lefty version. Patterico says that the decision turned upon a technicality and has nothing to do per se with Ashcroft's guilt or innocence.
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