Hey the so called activist judges are at it again.

Judge strikes down part of Bush anti-terror order

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that part of the law, signed by Bush on September 23, 2001 and used to freeze the assets of terrorist organizations, violated the Constitution because it put no apparent limit on the president’s powers to place groups on that list.

Ruling in a lawsuit brought against the Treasury Department in 2005 by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Collins also threw out a portion of Bush’s order which applied the law to those who associate with the designated organizations.

Oh fabulous.. can we not freeze the assets first and then decide if they should be on the list by a court of judges?? Put a penalty in place like 8% interest for freezing assets if the court can not see any reason why they should have been frozen in the first place. That would make the government step lightly and not slow the speed at which these things can happen if necessary.

The lawsuit was brought on behalf of five organizations, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, which wants to create a separate state for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, which represents Kurds in Turkey. Both groups had been designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.

Yeah I have no clue why we would want to freeze the US based assets of those organizations!!