Congress gave the phone companies immunity against the billions of dollars in lawsuits brought against them for cooperating with federal antiterror surveillance programs.  The ACLU and some trial lawyers argue that this is unconstitutional.  But even law professors, like Howard Wasserman, who don’t like the grant of immunity, agree that it is constitutional, as Wasserman explains here.  Indeed, the legal arguments against immunity don’t pass the straight face test, although it is conceivable that a mischievous judge who has previously ruled in favor of telecom lawsuits…

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