No, it's implying a heightened need for secure communications with the new administration. And no, courts aren't owned by parties. FISA judges are appointed by

No, it's implying a heightened need for secure communications with the new administration. And no, courts aren't owned by parties. FISA judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That's been a conservative for the last, ugh..., well longer than FISA exists, anyway. Also, even if I subscribed to the current dystopian view of politics, I'd argue it's never the parties that excerpt control of a court, but always the administration. There is, in theory as well as in practice, a difference between the two.