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… Identifies potential legal questions related to a range of Congressional proposals introduced post-§ 215 to alter FISC/FISCR: public advocates, amicus curiae, en banc panels, voting rules, selection of FISC/FISCR judges; …

… Considers the legal nature of the office of a public advocate, Article II’s Appointments Clause, and Article III restrictions. … ANDREW NOLAN ET AL., CONG. RES. SERV., R43260, REFORM OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE …

… Addresses host of bills designed to make procedural and operational changes to FISC including amicus curiae, en banc proceedings, voting rules requiring between 60 and 100% of the judges to concur. … ANDREW NOLAN & RICHARD …

… Date Redacted … Heavily redacted order and warrant authorizing unspecified electronic surveillance. Secondary order to persons whose assistance is necessary in order to implement the authorities approved herein. … Primary …

… Date Redacted … Government application requesting authorization for electronic surveillance and physical search. Court’s conclusion is redacted. … Memorandum Opinion, [REDACTED], No. [REDACTED], GID.C.00139 (FISA Ct.) …

… Supplemental order requiring the NSA to submit in designated reports a discussion of NSA consideration and implementation of purging credit card information produced by [redacted]. … Supplemental Order, In re Application …

… Primary order granting application pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 1861 of call detail records or "telephony metadata" created by [redacted]. … Primary Order, In re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order …

… Agent defendants are “entitled to qualified immunity with respect to this category of surveillance.” 916 F.3d at 1220. Agent defendants not entitled to qualified immunity “for recordings made by devices planted by FBI …

… Holding that that the Government may have violated the Fourth Amendment and did violate FISA when it collected the telephony metadata of millions of Americans, including at least one of the defendants convicted of sending …

… The Court amended the opinion reported at 916 F.3d 1202, unanimously voting to deny a petition for rehearing. The Court also voted on an en banc rehearing, but the matter failed to receive a majority of the votes by …