Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

cbs5​.com — Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional:

(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. A fed­eral judge ruled Wednesday that two pro­vi­sions of the USA Patriot Act are uncon­sti­tu­tional because they allow search war­rants to be issued with­out a show­ing of prob­a­ble cause. 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.’