Supreme Court passes up review of NSA snooping practices
By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ducked an invitation to review the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's electronic eavesdropping practices.
The challenge was the first case to reach the court since documents leaked by Edward Snowden disclosed the broad outlines of the NSA's snooping programs.
The case was filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, but it was always considered a long shot because of the way it came to the court's doorstep. EPIC bypassed the lower courts and went directly to the Supreme Court, reasoning that only the justices could tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court what to do.
But such direct filings are rarely granted.
Monday's rejection came without comment, as it the usual practice.
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