A federal judge has ruled the wiretapping unconstitutional. Next up, SCOTUS...

Justice Anna Diggs Taylor, why do you hate freedom?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...700650_pf.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/....ap/index.html
Quote Originally Posted by Washington Post
A federal judge in Detroit ordered a halt to the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, ruling for the first time that the controversial effort ordered by President Bush was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor wrote in a strongly-worded 43-page opinion that the NSA wiretapping program violates privacy and free-speech rights and the constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government. She also found that it violates a 1978 law set up to oversee clandestine surveillance.

Ruling in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups, Taylor, 73, wrote that "public interest is clear, in this matter. It is the upholding of the Constitution. . . . "

"It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights," she wrote. " . . . There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all 'inherent powers' must derive from that Constitution."
For the more lawyerly minded, her opinion from FindLaw:
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw....sa81706opn.pdf