On "Torture Day" Judge Taylor DEFIES BUSH Again- He Has 7 Days To Comply

[kpete]

On a day of infamy, Judge Taylor refuses to "stay" her order


Judge Anna Diggs Taylor today refused the Bush administration's request to issue a "stay" of her Order in the ACLU v. NSA case. When Judge Taylor ruled previously that the President's warrantless eavesdropping violated both the criminal law and the U.S. Constitution, she issued an Order enjoining the Bush administration from continuing its warrantless eavesdropping program.

The parties agreed to "stay" that Order until Judge Taylor could rule on the administration's request that the Order be stayed until the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rules on its appeal. Today, Judge Taylor refused the administration's request and instead gave them only seven days to comply with her Order.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/NEWS99/60928032

[screembloodymurder]

1. She's a heroine. If she's not burned at the stake,

maybe she could lend some "balls" to Congress.

[Tellurian]

10. She will be written up in History Books

As a Judge that stood her ground to Preserve
and Protect our Constitutional Rights,in the
face of the most Tyrannical Presidency in history!

[Donnachaidh]

2. Go Ms. Taylor GO!!!! k&r!

[halobeam]

3. honest question: So what happens in seven days?

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. I would imagine that the administration would appeal to a higher court

[halobeam]

5. thank you... and then?

:shrug:

[StaggerLee]

8. Try the pigs for treason?

Well I can hope anyway...

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. That depends on what the higher court rules

[ThomCat]

7. The government pretends they are complying

but continues business and usual, but prevents anyone from proving this by continuing to blanket everything under "national security."

[kentuck]

6. Does that mean it will go back to the Supreme Court?

and they will have to rule again?

[Tellurian]

9. Good on you Judge..

And I hope you are a poster here,
if not, please join US..

[ms liberty]

11. So...

She has 7 days before the Decider determines she is an unlawful enemy combatant? A week ago I would not have thought this scenario anything but a sick joke, today I think it entirely possible.

[madmusic]

17. What would Orwell say?

A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline. The first and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called, in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity. But stupidity is not enough. On the contrary, orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one's own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body. Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.

[maxsolomon]

22. wow i've got to dig 1984 out

if ever there was a perfect description of a GOP congressman...

[madmusic]

24. Links in another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2255929&mesg_id=2255929

[paparush]

13. She'll be Disappeared or named as an Enemy of the State

[Mme. Defarge]

32. Nothing to stop it now ...

Merde!

[progressoid]

14. Soo..who is going to enforce it? The US Attorney General? Justice Dept?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. what branch is she in again?

that one outdated branch that's essentially a codified peanut-gallery?

[Jacobin]

16. A patriot

Take a picture of her.

She'll be disappeared soon, or screeched at by Hannity, et al as a 'judicial activist'....someone trying to enforce the constitution.

[Drum]

19. Hannity sucks ass

(just to remind everyone) :)

[rateyes]

39. Here you go!

[Az_lefty]

18. She is a true patriot and will be waterboarded soon...

:hide:

[Leopolds Ghost]

20. Judge Taylor Has Made Her Decision. Now Let Her Enforce It!

Anyone remember that quote from America's first right-wing tribune of the people?

[meldroc]

30. Andrew Jackson

this one to the Supreme Court, when they ruled against Jackson's plan to deport native Americans on the Trail of Tears.

[dkofos]

21. Good on you Judge Taylor

Where are the rest of the ACTIVIST JUGDES I keep hearing about??

[bonito]

23. Kick

[madokie]

25. Now that is a judge in need of a vase of flowers

and another and another and another.

[malaise]

26. Indeed n/t

[madokie]

27. So this is the reason for getting the torture bill through this week

I'm a thinking now.

[xxqqqzme]

28. rah-ro - Taylor missed alberto's veiled threat

to the judiciary. She just got a place on the EC (enemy combatant) list.

[neuvocat]

29. She's just an activist judge

until it comes to everyone's civil rights being violated.

[Triana]

31. They'll declare her an 'enemy combatant'

shove her in some secret prison, never to be heard from again...Gonzo will see to it.

[Disturbed]

33. When will the Senate approve of the House Bill

permitting Warentless Wiretapping? You know they will do so.

[Melissa G]

34. I may love this woman! Every one in a position to act on *** should

have her courage!:loveya:

[lonestarnot]

35. Hell yeah!

[Hailtothechimp]

36. Seven days until they flaunt a judge's order

Even the dumbest of Fox viewers should be able to grasp what that means.

He's a criminal! We all know he is, but this will confirm it for all to see.

[DiverDave]

37. Hopefully the Justice Dept. will comply.

If they don't, it's over, they will have won.

[Pryderi]

38. They won't. After all, they won't arrest themselves.