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U.S. Supreme Court declines to weigh public access to surveillance court rulings -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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WASHINGTON (Reuters), – Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was not to decide whether public have a right of access to significant decisions that were made secretively. The court approves surveillance requests from government agencies, including those that are extremely contentious.

American Civil Liberties Union tried to obtain access to U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court decisions prior to 2015. These were related to the so-called “global warfare on terrorism”, which was a term used by former President George W. Bush to describe his administration’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. ACLU appealed against a denial of access by a court of specialization in surveillance cases.

Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch said that he and liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor would take up the case.

According to the ACLU, public can have access to notable FISA court decisions. This court is sometimes named the FISA Court after the 1978 law that created it, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. According to the ACLU, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and press freedom, gives limited access to some of the most important decisions of FISA court.

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