Here’s the question we have to be asking: if the government is going to claim that it has the power to do things like this, what is the check on that power? I

Here’s the question we have to be asking: if the government is going to claim that it has the power to do things like this, what is the check on that power? In what sense can the public consent to the government having these powers if they are kept secret? if the public cannot consent, then who did? It seems that the legal system and organizations like eff are what we’ve got at the moment. But that only works to the extent that courts are willing to hear those cases, which nobody can force them to do, especially if the courts become packed with far right activists.