{"id":6050,"date":"2011-09-21T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:17:30","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: &#8220;Appeals Court OKs Challenge to Warrantless Electronic Spying&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/09\/fisa-amendment-challenge\/\">Appeals Court OKs Challenge to Warrantless Electronic Spying<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A legal challenge questioning the constitutionality of a federal law authorizing warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans inched a step closer Wednesday toward resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the second time rejected the Obama administration\u2019s contention that it should toss a lawsuit challenging the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act. Among other things, the government said the plaintiffs \u2014 Global Fund for Women, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, The Nation magazine, PEN American Center, Service Employees International Union and others \u2014 don\u2019t have standing to bring a constitutional challenge because they cannot demonstrate that they were subject to the eavesdropping or suffered hardships because of it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The opinion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/files\/assets\/amnesty_et_al__v__clapper_-_2nd_circuit_denial_of_rehearing_en_banc.pdf\">Amnesty Int&#8217;l v. Clapper<\/a>, 09-4112-cv (2d Cir. September 21, 2011), opinion on denial of rehearing en banc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}