The courts of USA they can't seem to agree on whether the US government's mass surveillance actions are against the law or not.
One thing is certain: the White House did not like the recent decision, a federal judge who wanted the US National Security Service to violate the fourth amendment for data protection.
It was first reported by the Reuters Agency, that the Ministry The U.S. Justice Department appealed Friday in an attempt to overturn the ruling that found the collection of phone metadata unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon in December called her data collection an "indiscriminate and arbitrary intrusion" into the privacy of Americans.
But where things start to get complicated, revealing differing interpretations of the law and the finger of the White House, is when another judge ruled in favor of the NSA's data collection program. The US District Judge William Pauley said the government's efforts to collect all kinds of data are "an important one tool” against terrorism and is within the bounds of US law.
What is certain is that at some point the Supreme Court will be involved, which will have to take on the responsibility, which the government does not take on, without being influenced by it. The three powers (legislative, executive and judicial), after all, in order for there to be a Democracy, must be independent;