Wacky Leftist Judge Strikes Down Terrorist Funding Law

A wacky leftist judge from California struck down the president’s right to designate a group as being a terrorist organization!

Funny, the AP today forgot to mention that this same wacky judge ruled the Patriot Act unlawful in 2004!

Gee… guess which democrat appointed this one?

Here’s the AP report:

A federal judge struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.


A few of the children abducted by Tamil Liberation Tigers and used as child soldiers. Now the Tigers will be able to pay them. (LankaWeb)

The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush’s order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as “specially designated global terrorists” after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

“This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists,” said David Cole, a lawyer for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Constitutional Rights that represented the group. “It was reminiscent of the McCarthy era.”

The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of Kurds in Turkey.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins enjoined the government from blocking the assets of the two groups.

Both groups consider the Nov. 21 ruling a victory; both had been designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.

Cole said the judge’s ruling does not invalidate the hundreds of other designated terrorist groups on the list but “calls them into question.”

Judge Audrey Collins ruled the US Patriot Act was unconstitutional in 2004 and again in July 2005.

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