{"id":1415,"date":"2007-10-07T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:28:48","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"Cert. petition filed in ACLU v. NSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/pdfs\/safefree\/nsa_cert_20071002.pdf\">petition for certiorari<\/a> in its lawsuit against the National Security Agency challenging the government\u2019s so-called \u201cterrorist surveillance program,\u201d <em>ACLU v. NSA<\/em>, 438 F. Supp. 2d 754 (E.D. Mich. 2006), rev&#8217;d 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007). The petitioners are: ACLU, ACLU Foundation, ACLU of Michigan, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), CAIR Michigan, Greenpeace, Inc., NACDL, James Bamford, Larry Diamond, Christopher Hitchens, Tara McKelvey and Barnett Rubin. The respondents are the NSA and Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander as Director of the NSA and Chief of the Central Security Service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questions presented:<\/p>\n<p>1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that plaintiffs who have been injured because of government surveillance are precluded from challenging the lawfulness of that surveillance if the government refuses to disclose whether plaintiffs\u2019 communications have been intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>2. Whether the President possesses the authority under Article II of the Constitution to engage in intelligence surveillance within the United States that Congress has expressly prohibited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1415\">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-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}