4th Amendment gone?

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Richard

I disagree - this is America and things like that don't go unnoticed by somebody.

Richard

Looks like it caught the Judges eye

US district judge Katherine Forrest, in New York City's eastern district, found that section 1021 – the key section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – which had been rushed into law amid secrecy and in haste on New Year's Eve 2011, bestowing on any president the power to detain US citizens indefinitely, without charge or trial, "facially unconstitutional". Forrest concluded that the law does indeed have, as the journalists and peaceful activists who brought the lawsuit against the president and Leon Panetta have argued, a "chilling impact on first amendment rights". Her ruling enjoins that section of the NDAA from becoming law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...p-detat-foiled

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US Supreme Court DENIES application to vacate stay in StopNDAA lawsuit.


https://www.stopndaa.org/2013/02/21/...pndaa-lawsuit/

Next, the DOJ attorneys went to the second circuit court and asked them to lift the stay as well, claiming “irreparable harm” would be incurred by the US if the government did not have these unchecked powers. The second circuit court judges granted their request and put a stay on our injunction.

We applied to both Justice Ginsberg (who said no) and Justice Scalia (who said yes) to convene a conference of the entire Supreme Court to consider lifting that stay and restoring our injunction. They told us yesterday that they will not lift the stay – indefinite detention under the NDAA stands.

12A600
HEDGES, CHRISTOPHER, ET AL. V. OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. The application to vacate stay addressed to Justice Scalia
and referred to the Court is denied.