ACLU drops suit against the Patriot Act

AP/MSNBC:

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday dropped a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act.

The ACLU said it was withdrawing the lawsuit filed more than three years ago because of “improvements to the law.” The Justice Department argued last month that amendments approved by Congress in March 2006 had corrected any constitutional flaws in the Patriot Act.

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This has to be a blow to Democrats who oppose the statute and want to repeal it. The main reason the ACLU had to drop the case was that it was going to lose. Perhaps it was afraid of the the potential ruling coming back to haunt it later.

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