A federal judge ruled yesterday that two components of the USA PATRIOT Act-- the controversial legislation rushed into law in late 2001 that has been compared to Nazi Germany's Enabling Act-- are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act,
"now permits the executive branch of government to
conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens
without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the
Fourth Amendment."
Is this the beginning of a larger movement to check the executive's post-9/11 power grabs or will this ruling be brushed aside by the White House as a mere nuisance?
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