Supreme Snort Upholds NSA Spying:

[The2ndAmendment]

Supreme Court allows NSA to continue looking at telephone records - CNN.com

he U.S. Supreme Court will allow the National Security Agency's surveillance of domestic telephone communication records to continue for now.

The justices without comment Monday rejected an appeal from a privacy rights group, which claimed a secret federal court improperly authorized the government to collect the electronic records.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed its petition directly with the high court, bypassing the usual step of going to the lower federal courts first. Such a move made it much harder for the justices to intervene at this stage, but EPIC officials argued "exceptional ramifications" demanded immediate final judicial review. There was no immediate reaction to the court's order from the public interest group, or from the Justice Department.

The NSA has publicly acknowledged it received secret court approval to collect vast amounts of so-called metadata from telecom giant Verizon and leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

 

[Pennywise]

SCOTUS didn't take it up because due process has not been followed. There is a chain of events that needs to happen before the high court will hear the argument.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

SCOTUS didn't take it up because due process has not been followed. There is a chain of events that needs to happen before the high court will hear the argument.

Why would you use such a well defined term so loosely, sloppily and wrongfully?:

nor shall [any person] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.[1]

The late 18th century definition of "due process" used by the Fifth Amendment is the ONLY definition of "due process."

The Supreme Court can hear any repeal to which it has appellate jurisdiction, skipping all inferior courts --- if it truly wishes to.

Aren't you a little government brown-noser?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The same Court that upheld ObamaCare

Yeah, shocking

 

[Geaux4it]

SCOTUS is a kangaroo court. With Roberts being the head jester

-Geaux

 

[Hoosier4Liberty]

Unacceptable!

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The government says the government has the right to spy on you. We're all shocked.

 

[Pennywise]

SCOTUS didn't take it up because due process has not been followed. There is a chain of events that needs to happen before the high court will hear the argument.

Why would you use such a well defined term so loosely, sloppily and wrongfully?:

nor shall [any person] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.[1]

The late 18th century definition of "due process" used by the Fifth Amendment is the ONLY definition of "due process."

The Supreme Court can hear any repeal to which it has appellate jurisdiction, skipping all inferior courts --- if it truly wishes to.

Aren't you a little government brown-noser?

They are wanting the case to go through the process of being taken up by lesser courts. There is nothing there that says "they uphold the NSA spying", they have not taken it up as of yet.

If I were to put money on it, I would bet that they will take it up, but don't want to take it sooner than they would for most other cases since the issue is so sensitive. Your hyperbolic childish nonsense notwithstanding. Asshole.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

The government says the government has the right to spy on you. We're all shocked.

I know, right? I am truly flabbergasted over this revelation.