National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court

Gunkerty Jeb writes The Ninth Circuit appeals court in San Francisco took oral arguments from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Department of Justice yesterday over the constitutionality of National Security Letters and the gag orders associated with them. The EFF defended a lower court's ruling that NSLs are unconstitutional, while the DoJ defended a separate ruling that NSLs can be enforced. Whatever the court rules, the issue of NSLs is all but certainly headed for the Supreme Court in the not too distant future.

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Re:DOJ Oaths

[CrimsonAvenger]

To argue that some silly law or court ruling overrides the First Amendment should be a criminal offense.

Replace "First" with "Second", and your statement is still perfectly valid.

Alas, evidence is that most people who get excited about the First tend to think that the Second is something that can (and should!) be overridden at a whim....