Thursday, February 16, 2006
Some judges still uphold the law.
And this will surely be a throbbing hemmerhoid for Our Dear Embattled Leader and his evil minions.
A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program.And you can bet that calls have already gone out to the Dread Chief Justice Roberts and his swashbuckling crew, Scalia, Alito and the cabin boy Thomas.
The ruling was a victory for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which sued the department under the Freedom of Information Act in seeking the release of the documents.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that the department must finish processing the group’s requests and produce or identify all records within 20 days.
“Given the great public and media attention that the government’s warrantless surveillance program has garnered and the recent hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the public interest is particularly well served by the timely release of the requested documents,” he said.
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