Big Brother To Watch Judges?

One week from today, the U.S. Judicial Conference will decide whether judges and their staff can handle grown-up responsibilities like ... using the internet. No, you did not click onto The Onion by mistake: after heated disagreement earlier this year, the issue is coming to a head. Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has a great Wall Street Journal opinion piece, today only. (It wants your email; try me@privacy.net.) Jeffrey Rosen's analysis in TNR is another good take on it. If you don't think the men and women who hold people's lives in their hands need daddy and mommy looking over their shoulder, you might take a moment to fire off a quick, polite email per the EFF's suggestion. If surveillance can invade a judge's workplace, it's for damnsure there's nothing keeping it out of yours.

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Big Brother meets his match in these judges.

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If anybody at all can point out to society how wrong it is to institute blanket surveillance of all individuals using the Internet within a defineable group, it's these tough, liberty-minded judges. In contrast with the corrupt, election-stealing American Supreme Court, these somewhat lower-level judges realize exactly what is at stake here, and they will raise the biggest stink you ever smelled before they submit to this rank injustice from on high. Aux barricades, toute la nation Americaine!