EFF Urging Appeals Court To Reject Government Stalling Tactics in NSA Spying Case
The Electronic Frontier Foundation will urge an appeals court to reject government attempts to block an appeal (see 1508050058) in Jewel v. NSA, “EFF’s long-running lawsuit battling unconstitutional mass surveillance of Internet and phone communications,” a news release said Monday.…
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“Evidence from whistleblowers and the government itself confirms the Internet backbone spying, yet a district court judge ruled earlier this year that there wasn’t enough publicly available information to rule if the program is constitutional.” EFF appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The government argues the appeal is “premature and entwined with other issues that are still being litigated in the lower court,” but EFF Special Counsel Richard Wiebe will argue Wednesday that the “appeals court should reject the government’s delay tactics, and finally address whether backbone spying is legal and constitutional,” it said. The hearing begins at 2 p.m. PDT in Courtroom 1 at the 9th Circuit in Pasadena, California.