Board with Judge Anna Diggs Taylor gave four grants to wiretap plaintiff ACLU
The executive director of the Michigan A.C.L.U., Kary Moss, said her group had received four grants totaling $125,000 from the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan since 1999. They were a $20,000 grant in 1999 for an educational program on the Bill of Rights, $60,000 in 2000, along with the N.A.A.C.P. and other groups for education on racial profiling, $20,000 in 2002 for work on racial profiling and $25,000 in 2002 for a lawyer to work on gay rights. here • The Community Foundation is governed by a board of up to 50 community leaders, including Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, which awards grants to support a wide variety of activities and programs benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs in the seven-county region of southeast Michigan. here

FISA opinion
"Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people simply don’t see the world the way we do" President Bush said today. here

Wiretap opinion of Anna Taylor Diggs
Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, predicted that the plaintiffs would win the surveillance case on appeal, but not for the reasons Judge Taylor gave.

“The chances that the Bush program will be upheld are not none, but slim,” Professor Sunstein said. “The chances that this judge’s analysis will be adopted are also slim.”
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