California judge withdraws her own judgment favoring PKK and LTTE in a 16 page verdict

A federal judge in Los Angeles, California has withdrawn her own judgment favoring Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan (PKK) terrorist group in Turkey delivered last November.

Last November, the federal judge said President Bush acted unconstitutionally when she designated 27 groups and individuals including the Tamil Tigers as terrorists in 2001. The judge reconsidered the issue at the government’s request.

Mr. Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University, said the statute invoked by the president's order, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, gives him t too much authority. "It's very much like the blacklists of the McCarthy period. The president can designate anybody he wants for any reason or no reason at all," Mr. Cole said.

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