Fox News Reports: In another unusual twist, the 11 judges are appointed exclusively by the Chief Justice of the United States, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. John Roberts has named every member of the current court, as a well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals of FISC orders, known as the Court of Review.
The Supreme Court would theoretically have the power to hear any subsequent challenges, but the justices never have– at least not that we know. But the Electronic Privacy Information Center last week directly asked the high court to review the NSA collection of telephone communication data. Roberts himself expressed some reservations about this judicial concept — also known by the acronym FISA — during his…
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