January 22nd, 2010
Judge nixes two Bush-era domestic spying cases
AFP
Bankson vowed on Friday that the EFF will ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Walker's decision in the two class-action suits.
"The alarming upshot of the court's decision is that so long as the government spies on all Americans, the courts have no power to review or halt such mass surveillance even when it is flatly illegal and unconstitutional," said Bankston.
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