Re:Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance prog...
by hypothesis on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:00PM
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Please note that at no point I said that you specifically cheered, so no need to project. It’s a threaded topic.
As you noticed, following constitution is apparently not an option here. Being unconstitutional and ignored, there was at least some hope for improvement, but codification gave us a clear answer that elected representatives are, at best, only selectively interested in supporting constitution.
Re:Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance prog...
by temporarely on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:00AM
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Well, you are asserting a binary choice here which is questionable and implies that unless we grant spooks legal OK for some violations of the constitution they are free to ignore the entire matter. If a government agency is acting in violation of constitution then there are legal and constitutional remedies to make sure the said agencies act according to the law of the land.
I am seriously asking whether being flat-out unconstitutional is worse than building a (legislated and approved) backdoor around the constitution, yes.
I mean, better than both would be to just follow the constitution, but that wasn't the question.