“Supreme Court agrees to hear case on electronic surveillance” @ Washington Post

Posted on May 25, 2012

Robert Barnes — May 21, 2012: “The Supreme Court will decide next term whether a group of lawyers, human rights activists and journalists may challenge the federal government’s widespread use of electronic surveillance to monitor suspected terrorist activities overseas.

The Americans challenging the program say they have a “well-founded fear” that their phone calls and other communications with overseas clients and sources are swept up in the “dragnet surveillance.”

But the justices, in the term beginning in October, will not rule on whether the 2008 law that authorized the program violates the Americans’ Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches…………………………………………..”

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