Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case

Re:Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case by lifeisstillgood on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:19AM (#11139372)

I don't think you can lobby SCOTUS. Theoretically you could present an amicus brief but I think the bar is very high

It's probably a good thing we can't lobby them

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Re:Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case by ianamartin on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:26AM (#11139385)

You absolutely can write letters to the members individually. Perhaps lobby was a bad word for it.

Perhaps my idea is broken on the face of it. But an amicus brief put together by the HN community doesn't seem completely unreasonable.

My point here is that there are things we are capable of doing that might affect the outcome of such a court case.

For those of us who care--in either direction--it seems reasonable to try.

What I'm going to try to research and build this weekend is the most effective way of contacting the court and sharing your opinions.

It could very well fail to be effective, but that's not going to stop me from trying.

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Re:Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case by tamana on Saturday February 20, 2016 @10:10AM (#11140310)

You can invite them to a weekend party at your branch, and bend their ear.

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Re:Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case by lifeisstillgood on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:33AM (#11139399)

I would be very interested in hearing your research - good luck

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Re:Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case by ianamartin on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:44AM (#11139424)

I will share what I come up with over the next couple of days.

Hell even if it doesn't turn out well, it will be an interesting thing to put up on github to help me get a job.

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