July 11, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been the author of a significant number of defense-related decisions in his dozen years on the D.C. Circuit, with his body of work suggesting a willingness to back the government's broad authority over national security issues, but also a willingness to call out vague laws and attempts to overreach the law.
February 08, 2016
The Freedom Watch founder challenging the government's bulk phone records collection program told the D.C. Circuit Friday that a November end to certain collection under the USA Freedom Act does not moot the need for a court-ordered halt to the activities.
January 05, 2016
The government asked the D.C. Circuit on Monday to nix once and for all a lower court's halt to its bulk phone records collection program, saying the program ended Nov. 28 after a transition period to targeted collection that the suit does not challenge.
November 20, 2015
The full D.C. Circuit on Friday refused to reconsider a panel ruling putting on hold a federal court order shutting down the National Security Agency's mass telephone record collection program, with one of the circuit judges declaring the expiring intelligence-gathering practice to be constitutional.
November 19, 2015
A lawyer and his firm fighting to have their information erased from the National Security Agency's mass phone data collection program asked the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday for an emergency en banc rehearing of an order staying the case, suggesting the judges involved were swayed by the Paris attacks.
November 17, 2015
The U.S. government successfully parried a federal court order on Monday that would have required it to shut down its mass telephone record collection program just weeks before a law passed this summer requires the National Security Agency to replace the program with a more targeted regime.
November 10, 2015
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday granted the federal government's emergency request allowing the National Security Agency to continue collecting bulk telephony metadata while it appeals a lower court's Monday ruling that the program is unconstitutional.