Consistency

The U.S. government’s court case against Google over search information has a logic all of its own. They ask the court to allow them to infringe upon the privacy of Google users to “revive” a law that was stricken down by the Supreme Court. It has no internal contradiction. The original law is unconstitutional, so the means with which to revive it has to be unconstitutional also. One must applaud the consistency of the U.S. Justice Department. If they abide by the Constitution in the revival of an unconstitutional law, they would be implicitly acknowledging that the Constitution should be followed. As they show no respect for it, they themselves at least do not provide any reasons for their opponents. Logical consistency is in rare form here.