{"id":7470,"date":"2013-12-16T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2013-12-16T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:12:43","slug":"federal-court-rules-that-most-nsa-phone-record-collections-likely-violates-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/federal-court-rules-that-most-nsa-phone-record-collections-likely-violates-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court rules that most NSA phone record collections likely violates constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A federal judge has ruled that the \u201cwholesale collection of the phone record metadata\u201d of all U.S. citizens \u2014 a program exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden \u2014 likely violates the 4th Amendment and is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In the decision, Judge Leon rules that the plaintiff challenging the bulk collection of U.S. phone records, legal activist and Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, have \u201cdemonstrated a substantial likelihood of succession the merits of their Fourth Amendment claims, and that they will suffer irreparable harm absent preliminary injunctive relief.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/12\/16\/3071061\/federal-court-rules-bulk-collection-phone-records-nsa-violates-constitution-founding-fathers-agast\/\">HERE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ruled that the \u201cwholesale collection of the phone record metadata\u201d of all U.S. citizens \u2014 a program exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden \u2014 likely violates the 4th Amendment and is unconstitutional. In the decision, Judge Leon rules that the plaintiff challenging the bulk collection of U.S. phone records, legal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/federal-court-rules-that-most-nsa-phone-record-collections-likely-violates-constitution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal court rules that most NSA phone record collections likely violates constitution<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Wu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7471,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}