What the municipal court has said is that in order to practice law as a court-appointed counsel, you have to do this thing that the Legislature cooked up.

As the defenders of the Constitution, we are deeply troubled that illegal surveillance of law-abiding Americans could be happening in our own building.

We jumped from our seats and applauded. It was a happy moment. To practice law in any state, you must graduate from an accredited law school.

Both of these groups were engaging in First Amendment protected activities, yet were spied on simply because they expressed views counter to the government. This type of surveillance is contrary to American values and hearkens back to the illegal government spying conducted during the Vietnam War and the McCarthy era.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

I just can't imagine to practice law without him around.