Federal District Court Rules NSA Wiretapping Program Unconstitutional, Orders Immediate Halt

Think Progress has the link:

Fox News reports a federal district court in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it....

Judge Anna Diggs Taylor opinion HERE (PDF). She writes:

In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA forbids.FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained.

According to the injunction the government's program "violates the Separation of Powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III."