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Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance
Trailrunner7 writes "The challenge to the NSA's domestic surveillance program filed with the Supreme Court by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ended Monday, with the court refusing to consider the challenge at all. EPIC had filed the challenge directly with the Supreme Court rather than going through the lower courts. EPIC, a non-profit organization involved in privacy policy matters, had asked the court to vacate an order from a judge in the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court that had enabled the NSA's collection of hundreds of millions of Verizon call records under the so-called metadata collection program. The challenge hinged on the idea that the FISC had gone outside of its authority in granting the order."
Oh please, give it up. You've right, any child who's taken a decent civics class would know about the 4A, however the facts that the government has spent billions on spying apparatus and infrastructure, there's a whole federal agency dedicated to violating the 4A, the Executive branch has been complicit in it at all levels with both Republican and Democrat presidents, there's secret courts to rubberstamp all this activity, and Congress refuses to outlaw it, all shows that appealing to the Constitution and the rule of law is pointless. The law is whatever the government and the judiciary says it is, and they've said this stuff is perfectly legal, despite what your (and everyone else not in the government) interpretation of the 4A may say.
The idea that the government is bound by the Constitution and the BoR at this point is just silly.
I don't think anyone wants to see a 6-3, 7-2, 8-1, or 9-0 ruling affirming these behaviors.
Why not? It would affirm that the Supreme Court has no intention of upholding the Constitution, if the Obamacare debacle wasn't enough.