On Statutory Grounds News Today

>> its a big deal. its a great ruling. weve been waiting for it for a long time now. its a case that we filed right after the first snowden disclosures. this was the first program that was disclosed. >> this was the big bombshell one that said, hey, by way, they keep going to your cell phone providers and saying give us everyones call records. >> every day, every day they got from all the major telecommunications providers a list of, you know, essentially this log of who you called and when you ...

Everyones call records. >> every day, every day they got from all the major telecommunications providers a list of you know essentially this log of who you called and when you called them how long you spoke to them for and they have that for everybody, not just suspected terrorists or suspected criminals, everybody. and we challenged the lawfulness of that program. both on statutory grounds and on constitutional grounds. and the ruling today is a ruling that the program violates the statute. in ...