episode n++: a new hope?
Dec. 16th, 2013 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenU.S. judge rules phone surveillance program is likely unlawful
looks like the court's server has buckled under the surge load of people grabbing copies, but i got the first decision anyway. mmm, such heart-warming prose: "While Congress has great latitude to create statutory schemes like FISA, it may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the Constitution". (p 34)
oooh, and he cites useful precedents, including us v jones. will read in detail later; must work on the great machine.
looks like it's back to the supremes for another try.
(Reuters) - The U.S. government's collection of massive amounts of data about telephone calls, a program revealed in June after leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, is likely unlawful, a judge ruled on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon stayed his own ruling pending an expected appeal by the government, but he wrote that the program likely violated Americans' right to be free of unreasonable searches.
looks like the court's server has buckled under the surge load of people grabbing copies, but i got the first decision anyway. mmm, such heart-warming prose: "While Congress has great latitude to create statutory schemes like FISA, it may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the Constitution". (p 34)
oooh, and he cites useful precedents, including us v jones. will read in detail later; must work on the great machine.
looks like it's back to the supremes for another try.