Catching Up on Alito, NSA, etc

No posts for a while due to problems with the wireless router. Will catch up this weekend on Alito getting an assist from Robert Byrd (conservatives loooooove calling him an old fart, a Klansman and a kook...unless he supports one of their guys...then he's a genius)...the NSA using "reasonable belief" threshold for wiretapping instead of the "probable cause" threshold required in the text of the 4th Amendment (a distinction without a difference? Nope)...and some news of the weird.