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Big Brother To Watch Judges?

Posted by jamie on from the justice-is-blind dept.

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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  1. Wrong thing to focus on... by toupsie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Who cares if Federal Judges are surfing the Stileproject to look at kitty cats being stir fried? (yumm, General Tsao Kitty) I am more concerned with the conversations Federal Judges are having in the backrooms. I want their private deals to be made public. Who the heck knows what they are doing and how it affects our freedom. Are we to trust these people with our liberty when they feel they are above the standards of ordinary Federal employees? At least with the other two branches of government, citizens have the ability to directly remove the corrupt. Its almost impossible to remove a seated Federal judge.

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    Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
  2. Re:I have right! by Halloween+Jack · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This got modded as "interesting"?

    You guys look like that killer. You're pathetically uncharismatic, you're outclassed and you're in the wrong. I love watching you squeal and moan.


    And you, I suppose, look like Clint Eastwood with a big, big gun.


    Sheesh, there goes the neighborhood.

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    I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.
  3. Bug Reporting Seems to have a Bug by Morris+Schneiderman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sorry to have to post off topic, but there seems to be a bug in the Slashdot / SourceForge Bug Reporting software.



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    Morris