Subject: Statist scum: Supreme Court dismisses challenge to surveillance law Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:30 am
The Supreme Court split along ideological lines Tuesday in dismissing a challenge to an expanded federal law that allows the interception of electronic communications between foreign targets and people in the United States.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the conservative majority in saying that the lawyers, journalists and human rights organizations that brought the suit cannot prove they have been caught up in the surveillance and thus may not challenge the law’s 2008 expansion.