[Osx-nutters] hereditary kings

[Kevin Callahan]

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GLENN GREENWALD: Well, there are several aspects to why it's so  
significant, the first of which is, this is the first time a federal  
court has ruled on the legality of the Bush administration's highly  
controversial warrantless eavesdropping program, and the court rather  
resoundingly said that it violates several constitutional protections  
and also violates the law. So it's the first judicial decision on  
what has been a highly controversial political issue.

And then, beyond that, the court was very emphatic in rejecting the  
Bush administration's arguments, not just with regard to warrantless  
eavesdropping, but more broadly with regard to its radical theories  
of executive power that say that the President has almost unchecked  
authority in the area of national security, and it's now the second  
court, after the Supreme Court in Hamdan did that, to say that that  
theory is alien to our constitutional traditions.