Terror-supporting lawyer to plea for mercy today during sentencing
Joseph Goldstein reports in the NYSun:
Smackdown, Althouse style
Blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse lays the law down on US District Court Judge Anna Diggs recent ruling against NSA wiretapping. Professor Althouse writes:
Possible conflict of interest for Judge Anna Taylor Diggs
Judge Diggs, you’ll remember, was the US District Court judge who last week ruled against the government’s NSA warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists. The ruling was widely hailed by the usual suspects on the far left who are still trying to pass off their visceral hatred for President Bush as ‘concern about Bush trampling on our Constitutional rights’.
Yesterday’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps
By now you’ve all already heard the story about United States District Court (Detroit) Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps program, where suspicious calls originating in the US but going out overseas are sometimes monitored without a warrant.