The Center for Constitutional Rights petitioned the Supreme...
The Center for Constitutional Rights petitioned the Supreme Court last week to reverse or change its ruling in Clapper v. Amnesty International, the rationale from which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had used to reject the center’s concerns about…
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government surveillance in a separate case, Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama (http://bit.ly/1a6JsMW). “We have always been confident that our communications -- including privileged attorney-client phone calls -- were being unlawfully monitored by the NSA, but Edward Snowden’s revelations of a massive, indiscriminate NSA spying program changes the picture,” Senior Attorney Shayana Kadidal said in a news release Thursday (http://bit.ly/1lFpJ8Q). “Federal courts have dismissed surveillance cases, including ours, based on criteria established before Snowden’s documents proved that such concerns are obviously well-founded.” The center considers U.S. surveillance practices unconstitutional, it said. “Eight years after the initial disclosures that spawned this litigation, the seeming futility of attempts to debate the legality of broad surveillance in the courts has led to that debate being removed to the only remaining open forum available -- the press -- through the intervention of whistleblowers,” the attorneys said in the 108-page filing for a writ of certiorari. “The current vitality of that debate demonstrates the exceptional importance of the questions before this Court.”