The legal logic in U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s opinion that the NSA wiretapping program is unconstitutional may be weak, as some con-law scholars are claiming, but you gotta admire her flair for rhetoric:
“It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights…. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all ‘inherent powers’ must derive from that Constitution.”
And even if her argument were airtight, would the GOP spin be any different?
Congressional Republicans quickly condemned Taylor’s ruling, and the Republican National Committee issued a news release titled, “Liberal Judge Backs Dem Agenda To Weaken National Security.”
