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Reports: Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional

James Joyner · Thursday, September 30, 2004 · 2 comments

The headlines:

Judge Strikes Down Section of Patriot Act

Key Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional (WaPo)

Judge blocks part of Patriot Act (CNN – AP)

Orin Kerr points out that, in fact, what the court invalidated was “part of a 1986 law known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ”

Hmm.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Alex Knapp says:

Thursday, 30 September 2004 at 14:44

James,

It seems to me that the more sophisticated lefty blogs are trying to pull a reverse on 2000 by attempting to spread a “Bush is a great debater” meme, thereby RAISING expectations for his performance.

I think it’s pretty clever, actually.

Personally, I think Bush tends to be pretty awful in staged events like debates and pretty good in more informal settings.
Alex Knapp says:

Thursday, 30 September 2004 at 16:06

Hmm… I intended to comment on the Kevin Drum/debate post above. How’d that happen?