ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act 274
An anonymous reader writes, "The ACLU announced on Friday that they were dropping their case against the US Government over the highly contested section 215 of the Patriot Act. ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson stated: 'While the reauthorized Patriot Act is far from perfect, we succeeded in stemming the damage from some of the Bush administration's most reckless policies. The ACLU will continue to monitor how the government applies the broad Section 215 power and we will challenge unconstitutional demands on a case-by-case basis.'"
Patriot Pieties (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:it's about the lawyers (Score:5, Interesting)
Or they see some change happening in Congress in the near future and decided that might be a better way to fix the problem.
Wouldn't it be funny if (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I know why they did it (Score:3, Interesting)
or would you prefer the ACLU and not the NRA fought 2nd amendment issues?
Re:Wouldn't it be funny if (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm self-censoring because I'm afraid of the government.
Proud of it? No. Just realistic about the fact that they have more guns and bad attitude thugs than I do.
This is a chilling effect. Now excuse me while I sing the star spangled banner for a while.