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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Privacy Advocates To File Supreme Court Petition Challenging NSA Surveillance Program
BREAKING: Privacy Advocates To File Supreme Court Petition Challenging NSA Surveillance Program
By Andrea Peterson
Amie Steponovich, Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), announced that her organization is submitting a petition asking the Supreme Court to vacate Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) ruling that authorized the National Security Agencys (NSA) to siphon up metadata on all domestic phone calls on Monday.
The announcement was made Thursday at a Restore the Fourth rally in Washington, DC one of many public events around the country organized to protest the various surveillance programs revealed in recent NSA leaks. In an exclusive comment to ThinkProgress after the annoucement, Steponovich said EPIC truly believes that this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exceeded its authority, is not acting in accordance with the law and needs to be overturned and cannot be allowed to continue conducting this surveillance.
EPIC previously submitted a series of petitions to the NSA challenging its collection of domestic communications information on Fourth Amendment grounds, and because they believe the NSA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by implementing what constitutes a legislative rule that substantively affects the public to a degree sufficient to implicate the policy interests animating notice-and-comment rulemaking without an opportunity for public comment.
Other organizations have also initiated legal challenges to the NSA surveillance program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in June arguing that NSA phone data program violates the First Amendment rights of free speech and association, the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, and that the dragnet program exceeds the authority provided to the Agency by the Patriot Act.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/04/2258221/epic-nsa-scotus/
By Andrea Peterson
Amie Steponovich, Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), announced that her organization is submitting a petition asking the Supreme Court to vacate Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) ruling that authorized the National Security Agencys (NSA) to siphon up metadata on all domestic phone calls on Monday.
The announcement was made Thursday at a Restore the Fourth rally in Washington, DC one of many public events around the country organized to protest the various surveillance programs revealed in recent NSA leaks. In an exclusive comment to ThinkProgress after the annoucement, Steponovich said EPIC truly believes that this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exceeded its authority, is not acting in accordance with the law and needs to be overturned and cannot be allowed to continue conducting this surveillance.
EPIC previously submitted a series of petitions to the NSA challenging its collection of domestic communications information on Fourth Amendment grounds, and because they believe the NSA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by implementing what constitutes a legislative rule that substantively affects the public to a degree sufficient to implicate the policy interests animating notice-and-comment rulemaking without an opportunity for public comment.
Other organizations have also initiated legal challenges to the NSA surveillance program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in June arguing that NSA phone data program violates the First Amendment rights of free speech and association, the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, and that the dragnet program exceeds the authority provided to the Agency by the Patriot Act.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/04/2258221/epic-nsa-scotus/
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BREAKING: Privacy Advocates To File Supreme Court Petition Challenging NSA Surveillance Program (Original Post)
ProSense
Jul 2013
OP
So that would be a vote for massive domestic surveillance in clear violation of the 4th amendment.
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2013
#4
Regardless, the lawsuits are important and we should be glad they are happening.
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#6
Bravo to them and the ACLU. Have their passports been voided yet by our freedom loving gov't?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#7
shawn703
(2,702 posts)1. With this bunch on the USSC
I'm not holding my breath.
WovenGems
(776 posts)2. You can't petition a court
Well, you can. But a case is required for them to act.
So the ones doing this have no idea how courts work.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)3. The United States has a right to defend itself.
From attacks from within, and from without.
EPIC will fail, just as the ACLU will fail, because it is NOT a dragnet program.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)4. So that would be a vote for massive domestic surveillance in clear violation of the 4th amendment.
Apparently justified by the "right" of the government to defend itself from its own people.
Wow.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)6. Regardless, the lawsuits are important and we should be glad they are happening.
There absolutely needs to be some push back from civil rights advocates in the legal arena.
tritsofme
(17,379 posts)5. So they have isued a press release... Great accomplishment guys.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. Bravo to them and the ACLU. Have their passports been voided yet by our freedom loving gov't?
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)8. More ODS, eh Pro?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)9. Seems like you have
"More ODS, eh Pro?"
...PDS.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=212880&sub=trans
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)10. Am I supposed to ashamed or something?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)11. No, I don't suspect you have any. n/t