SCOTUS says ACLU is SOL
(Cross posted at Daily Kos where it made the "Recommended Diaries" list)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.The justices' decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU appealed the case because the lower court said that the plaintiffs couldn't prove they had been spied on. The government said they couldn't reveal whether or not they had been spied on because it would compromise state security.
That's pretty much the definition of Catch-22.
So one more pillar of the American Constitution knocked away by the Bush Supreme Court.
Doesn't it make you feel all tingly?
And how many members of the "Bush Supreme Court" did George W. Bush appoint, exactly, Ara?!
Why I'm surprised that you wouldn't know that. Could it be that you are asking a rhetorical question? Hmmmm.
Detailed answer: The Bush Supreme Court is made up of the Bush 41 appointments (Souter and Thomas) and the Bush 43 appointments (Alito and Roberts).
Three of those four align themselves with Scalia (Reagan) to give us a court that often votes 5-4 in favor of some of the most conservative decisions in recent memory.
but even that is making the analysis more complicated than need be. Let's agree that the replacement of O'Connor with Alito has swung the court in a decidedly more conservative direction.
"Let's agree that the replacement of O'Connor with Alito has swung the court in a decidedly more conservative direction."
Only (and only barely) in the political sense. The court has become decidedly more activist, anti-constitutional and corporatist. The words conservative and Republican barely deserve to be said in the same sentence any longer.