[privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds

[Dave Dittrich]

Brian Loe wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
>> Checks and balances?
>>
> 
> Exactly, they're asking the court to reign in a lower court. The
> appeals court may or may not do it. I don't understand your point.
> 
>> The executive branch trying muscle the
>> judicial branch?
> 
> They'll do what they want (and hopefully what is right).
> 
> Perhaps I'm too cynical but I'm pretty sure that if you believed this
> information could be bad if released (or there was a different
> president in office defending it) you wouldn't want the government to
> be brought to its knees by some piss-and court...would you?

I think you mean "pissant", meaning small and meaningless.

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990331

I'd love to see the people holding this opinion go toe to toe with
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the other founding fathers,
'splaining to them how they got that "tri-cameral" government
thing all wrong. Who needs an independent judiciary that
checks/balances the Congress and Executive?

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