{"id":10096,"date":"2013-12-27T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:50:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10096","title":{"rendered":"AboveTheLaw: Author Of Torture Memo Says Judges Are Too Out Of Touch To Determine If NSA Violated The 4th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AboveTheLaw: <a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2013\/12\/author-of-torture-memo-says-judges-are-too-out-of-touch-to-determine-if-nsa-violated-the-4th-amendment\/\">Author Of Torture Memo Says Judges Are Too Out Of Touch To Determine If NSA Violated The 4th Amendment<\/a> by Techdirt:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Yoo, who famously wrote the legal rationale for allowing the US government to torture people, has already defended the NSA\u2019s activities, arguing that it takes too long for the NSA to obey the Constitution, so it shouldn\u2019t have to. Given that, it was hardly a surprise to see his reaction to the recent ruling saying that the NSA\u2019s bulk metadata collection program was likely unconstitutional and should be stopped. Yoo is\u2026 not a fan of this ruling. In fact, he uses it to rail against judges daring to make any determination about whether or not something violates the 4th Amendment. According to him (and only him) that\u2019s the job of Congress, not the courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130817\/22391824220\/guy-who-wrote-legal-memos-defending-us-torture-defends-nsa-because-it-takes-too-long-to-obey-constitution.shtml\">From Techdirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there should be no judicial review of NSA v. Fourth Amendment because it&#8217;s Congress&#8217;s job to interpret the Fourth Amendment? Just like it was his (for the President) to determine what&#8217;s legal torture, and the courts be damned? Since Congress can&#8217;t do anything, <em>anything<\/em> it seems except draw a paycheck, what good are they in determining public policy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}