In weighing a constitutional challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, a panel of federal appeals judges in Washington expressed doubts about whether the challengers had standing to be in court—let alone whether they could prove that the surveillance program violated the Fourth Amendment.
Lawyer and activist Larry Klayman filed the lawsuit, claiming the government’s mass collection of phone metadata from phone companies violated privacy rights. In December, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found the bulk collection of telephone metadata “almost certainly” violated Americans’ privacy rights. The U.S. Department of Justice appealed.
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