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Federal judge rules FBI terrorism watchlist violates constitutional rights
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a government database of more than one million people identified as "known or suspected terrorists," violates the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens who were added to the list by denying them due process.
Almost two dozen Muslim American citizens who were placed on a watchlist, known as the Terrorist Screening Database, filed suit along with the Council on American-Islamic Relations against the government saying they were wrongly included in the database and that the process for adding names is overbroad and riddled with errors.
Many on the list, which is maintained by the FBI and shared with a variety of federal agencies, said they were subjected to frequent and sometimes invasive screenings while traveling which have led to "adverse experiences and consequences," including being handcuffed at border crossings.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ruled that the travel difficulties faced by plaintiffs who were on the list are significant and that they have a right to due process when their constitutional rights are infringed.
Previously: Feds Sued for Putting Infant (and Thousands More) on Terrorist Watchlist
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 06 2019, @02:08PM (6 children)
An American judge made a ruling that did not summarily strip away Constitutional rights? I thought they only made the other kind nowadays.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 06 2019, @03:13PM (4 children)
Let's not forget the Supremes. They've made some decisions in recent years reinstating second amendment rights to citizens of Washington D.C. And, NYC is working overtime, trying to figure a way to avoid the Supremes reviewing their draconian gun laws. There is hope, if we can avoid a liberal president appointing communist judges for a few more years.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday September 06 2019, @03:54PM
Diana Ross and, the 60s band? Or a comic book superhero team like the Avengers? Definitely not a type of pizza.
"The Supremes" is the dumbest abbreviation for the Supreme Court I've heard yet
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by catholocism on Friday September 06 2019, @10:16PM (2 children)
To be perfectly honest, our society would be better off if the supremes bothered to protect the rights given by every other amendment first, rather than the current form of putting the second amendment above and before all others. You don't need to own a gun in a well ordered society, but without the basic protections afforded by the other amendments, the use of the second becomes an inevitability. This doesn't make it the most important, unless you're really into putting the cart before the horse.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 06 2019, @11:35PM (1 child)
I see things quite differently. The right to self defense enables you to protect all your other rights. Oppressive regimes revoke the right to bear arms BEFORE they start on the right to free speech, the right to travel freely, the right to work, the right to be secure in your own home, etc etc etc.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:23AM
The NSA is conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace. The government is waging several illegal and unconstitutional wars overseas. Cops steal people's property without due process via asset forfeiture. The government is violating people's right to control their own bodies by waging a war on drugs. You have to be groped or scanned by TSA thugs to even ride on a plane, and you can't pay with cash and fly anonymously. We have private prisons that actively bribe our government to lock more people up to increase their profits. The list of authoritarian measures is endless.
So, all of that is happening, despite the second amendment. In fact, most second amendment supporters vote for candidates that are explicitly in favor of these rights violations. The second amendment is useless when so many of its supporters are authoritarians themselves.
Unless someone is a libertarian, which the vast majority of Republicans aren't, then they're part of the problem. Wake me up when most second amendment supporters aren't cheering on the very tyranny that they claim the second amendment is supposed to protect us from.
We're doing all of that and more, despite the second amendment.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 06 2019, @03:20PM
It depends on who is writing the cheque.
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