A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined Thursday to “meddle” in the 180-day transition period Congress created to rework the National Security Agency’s metadata collection program.
The three judges unanimously denied a motion by the American and New York Civil Liberties Unions for a preliminary injunction to block the NSA’s program as violative of the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The groups also were seeking a quarantine of the phone records of the two organizations that the NSA has collected and to prohibit the agency from making queries based on those records.
