I thought there were places where the USA PATRIOT Act did step on the Constitution.

Apparently not, as the people who decide what violates the 4th haven't struck it down.

4th amendment

By that logic nothing really violates any amendment

Until we get armed fucks in the streets

its akin to search and seizure without a warrant

I'm not arguing that it's a good law. It's not. The Patriot Act is shit and I want i repealed. That's not the responsibility of the SCOTUS though.

Like 2a has been violated to the point of being utterly neutered re: its original purpose

Armed fucks? wouldn't that get in the way?

Stop trying to shove responsibility for repealing shitty laws onto SCOTUS when it's the responsibility of the legislature.

not technically no but his position doesnt make repealing it easy

Scotus ignores its role all the time

Remember how you guys got gay marriage? That wasn't the role of scotus to do that

But they did it anyway

The reason the SCOTUS isn't boring like it should be is because legislators are abdicating responsibility.

ultimately it does come down to the legislature

Ultimately it comes down to the demos

well, as a straight man, I am super happy that I now have the right of gay marriage.

who are shirking their jobs

And what the American people will put up with

Congress doesn't do it's job. What's new?

Government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all, but it's not the responsibility of SCOTUS to decide that.

But they did

neither should religion

It's almost like SCotUS isn't necessarily doing its job properly

No, they decided that rights given to one group of Americans must be given to all groups of Americans.

Equal protection.

Where is marriage listed as a right?

It's a left

Wait, goberment shouldn't tell me who i spend time with? WTH?

insanity!

In whatever law passed by legislature that governs marriage. The law that, IMO shouldn't exist.

btw, what is marriage?

The overwhelming majority of responsibility for shitty laws falls on those who wrote them, not those who interpreted conflicts after the fact.

Also one of the times NSA shit was struck down was because the claimants couldn't prove they specifically were targeted

Sorry anti NSA shit

Marriage is two things: a contract and a social relation

So basically because the claimants couldn't prove they specifically were being surveilled, rampant surveillance could continue

And they couldn't prove that because the documents were classified

that it?

So because the government made private data classified as part of a vast information trolling network, it wasn't possible to challenge the government on a 4th amendment violation