{"id":9134,"date":"2013-07-26T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:44:38","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9134","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Roberts\u2019s Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/26\/us\/politics\/robertss-picks-reshaping-secret-surveillance-court.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20130726\">Roberts\u2019s Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court<\/a> by Charlie Savage:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how intrusive the  government can be in the name of national security. Less mentioned has been the person who has been quietly reshaping the secret court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.<\/p>\n<p>In making assignments to the court, Chief Justice Roberts, more than his predecessors, has chosen judges with conservative and executive branch backgrounds that critics say make the court more likely to defer to government arguments that domestic spying programs are necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of the judges are from Arkansas, something the press hadn&#8217;t picked up on before today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/ArkansasBlog\/archives\/2013\/07\/26\/chief-justice-john-roberts-influence-on-secret-surveillance-court\">Arkansas Times<\/a>. I do recall brief press mentions at the time of their appointments.  I went to law school with Wright, and Arnold introduces himself by his nickname &#8220;Buzz.&#8221; I&#8217;m personally comfortable with both in such an important job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9134\">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-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","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=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}