Rand Paul planning class action lawsuit against surveillance progrms

...because he rules, basically.

And because if it waits to go through Congress nothing will happen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...action-lawsuit-against-surveillance-programs/

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he plans to file a class action lawsuit against the Obama administration for its “unconstitutional” surveillance programs.

On “Fox News Sunday,” Paul said he wants to get the support of 10 million Americans.

“I’m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” Paul said, according to a rush transcript. “I’m going to be asking all the Internet providers and all of the phone companies, ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit. If we get 10 million Americans saying we don’t want our phone records looked at, then somebody will wake up and say things will change in Washington.”

Paul noted that public outcry over two pieces of legislation that raised Internet privacy concerns — known as SOPA and PIPA — proved very successful.

“If we can have that again — people by the millions coming out and saying, ‘Look, I want to be part of a class action suit that says to the government, let’s hear this at the Supreme Court level. Are you allowed to look at phone records even though there’s no probable cause that I’m related to a crime?’ — I think we’ll put an end to this,” Paul said.

 

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1. It will get dismissed
2. He has to show that these individuals are a "class." Good luck with that.
3. This just shows how dysfunctional Congress is. I would ask if he has better things to do, but Rand Has proven he is just a professional politician like his father.

 

It may or it may not.

You have to show a cluster of individuals with the "same claim". "Class" is not just an economic category. It's short of "classification", ie "individuals snooped on by the gubbermint".

It does show how dysfunctional Congress is when you can't count on it to make this never happen again and you have to take crap to the SCOTUS.

And that professional politician graduated from a top medical school, owns several business, and a free clinic...but you probably have garnered your opinion on him by watching pundits wax stupid so...whatevs.