A judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to stop a domestic wiretap program it says protects Americans from terrorism but which the judge said violated their civil rights.

[…]

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said the wiretaps under a five-year-old “Terrorist Surveillance Program” violated freedom of speech, protections against unreasonable searches and a constitutional check on the power of the presidency.

“There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” Taylor said in a 44-page ruling.

Full Story: Reuters.