I’ve written a “legal backgrounder” for the invaluable Washington Legal Foundation, arguing that the “public interest” lawsuits against the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance Program by the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights should be dismissed. It’s available here, at the WLF website. Leaving aside that the public’s primary “interest” is to remain alive, the thrust is that this is a political dispute committed by our system to be worked out by the political branches, not a legal problem for the courts.