National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 9, 2014 @11:02AM from the give-us-an-answer dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes The Ninth Circuit appeals court in San Francisco took oral arguments from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Department of Justice yesterday over the constitutionality of National Security Letters and the gag orders associated with them. The EFF defended a lower court's ruling that NSLs are unconstitutional, while the DoJ defended a separate ruling that NSLs can be enforced. Whatever the court rules, the issue of NSLs is all but certainly headed for the Supreme Court in the not too distant future.

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All Judges by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-09 11:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Crazy as it seems, all the judges were sent letters prohibiting them from taking this case due to National Security.
Re:I hope SCOTUS will defend the constitution by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-09 11:53 · Score: 4, Funny

I hope SCOTUS will defend the constitution
Eh, why start now?