Hatch Trying to Repeal Sunset Provisions of Patriot Act
We're not shocked by Hatch's new attempt to repeal the sunset provisions of the Patriot Act, we expected as much from him, but it's still wrong. As Eric Muller at IsThatLegal points out:
The whole point of a sunset provision is to create a deadline by which Congress can assess how well the provision is working before renewing it or making it permanent. The Act has only been in effect for 18 months at this point -- 18 months, I might add, in which the Administration's general stance about its enforcement efforts has been rather secretive. How could anyone actually think that a year and a half under this Administration is long enough to make a judgment about the advisability of permanent and significant changes to the powers of law enforcement?The ACLU has just fired off this letter to Sen. Durbin. More from the ACLU on this here. [link via Paper Chase]
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