Judge Guts Patriot Act, Tosses Wiretap, Search Provisions
Published September 27th, 2007
A federal judge in Oregon issued a stern rebuke of a key White House antiterror law, striking down as unconstitutional two pillars of the USA Patriot Act. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled Wednesday that using the act to authorize secret searches and wiretapping to gather criminal evidence — instead of intelligence gathering — violates the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. “A shift to a nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised,” she wrote.
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