Today You Lost Yet Another Shred of Privacy

The Supreme Court refused today to rule on the merits in a case that questioned whether the government can intercept international calls by American citizens: Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that the journalists, lawyers and human rights advocates who challenged the constitutionality of the law could not show they had been harmed by it and so lacked standing to sue. Their fear that they would be subject to surveillance in the future was too speculative to establish sta...