Supreme Court rejects domestic wiretap appeal
Posted On Thursday, February 21, 2008 at at 2/21/2008 12:48:00 AM by nullThe ACLU obtained a victory at the trial court level in August 2006. A federal judge in Michigan ruled that the NSA's once-secret terrorist surveillance program, which operated without court orders, "ran roughshod" over Americans' constitutional rights Americans and violated federal wiretapping law.
The Supreme Court's decision, which arrived without comment, lets that opinion stand.
The Supreme Court's inaction does not, however, directly affect about 40 cases pending before a federal judge in the Ninth Circuit appeals court in San Francisco.