Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

Re:Feds order Google to track people searching certain names... by Spivak on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:18PM (#28992607)

Seems like a good political move though, now the courts actually have to make the administration stop and get all the negative heat from putting people on the street. I mean the supreme law of the land let an order they believed was unconstitutional stand because of their personal moral imperatives and empathy toward renters. Is it really that crazy to shoot your shot and see if they do it again? Like the whole situation is nuts — “I think this is unconstitutional but I’m not going to say so because the law is gonna expire soon.” If that’s really the case then you could rule the other way with a clear conscience since it’s only a few days. Taking a bet that it was a bluff with little downsides if your wrong seems like a no brainer.

And the administration gets to say they did all they could and it’s up to congress now.

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Re:Feds order Google to track people searching certain names... by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:27PM (#28992711)

> let a law they believed was unconstitutional

Nobody alleged anything was unconstitutional. The question was whether the CDC exceeded the authority Congress gave it. The Court declined to answer that question when it was first raised. It answered it, definitively, the second time, striking down the moratorium extension.

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Re:Feds order Google to track people searching certain names... by Spivak on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:38PM (#28992824)

Right, my only point was that it essentially cost the administration nothing to extend it on the chance that they would decline again or vote differently when it actually mattered.

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