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    1. New: The ACLU just asked the Supreme Court to overturn FISA court rulings barring the public from asking it to disclose surveillance opinions affecting Americans' privacy rights. /1 nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/politics/fisa-court-supreme-court.html
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    The Supreme Court has never taken a case arising in the surveillance court system since Congress created it in 1978, so if it takes this one up it would be a landmark case. Helping the ACLU is an ensemble of civil-liberties groups and the prominent GOP lawyer Ted Olson. /2
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      Olson's presence in the case is striking given his history. As head of OLC in 1984, he signed a major and still-classified memo blessing NSA surveillance techniques. As solicitor general in 2002, he defended the Patriot Act in the first-ever FISA review court appeal. /end
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