Patriot Act parts found unconstitutional

Early this year, some U.S. climatologists argued for seeding the atmosphere with particulant pollutants, i.e., soot, to reflect sunlight; now, British “Gaia” hypothesis deviser James Lovelock wants to create a It violates the Fourth Amendment:

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”

No shit, and yet Democrats voted to do that just a month ago. Meanwhile, intelligence czar Mike McConnell wants to make that permanent.

Probably Congressional Democrats still won’t find a spine, and will hope SCOTUS bails them out.