Conflicting Court Opinions on NSA Surveillance
- By : Cbh
- Category : 4th Amendment, SCOTUS
One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the case of Amnesty International v. Clapper and… few people cared.
After all, “Clapper I,” as it became known, held that political activists had no standing to even discover if the government was spying on them.
But four months later, the floodgates opened with the Snowden disclosures that everyone was under mass surveillance.
This article, from the February 2014 Palm Beach Bar Bulletin, explains the basic origin of the NSA’s bulk telephony surveillance as well as the two conflicting court opinions in ACLU v. Clapper (“Clapper II”) and Klayman v. Obama (“Klayman I”).