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Colorado’s Timothy Tymkovich tapped by chief justice to serve on surveillance appeals court
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Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich recently became the first Coloradan to sit on the bench of the nation’s secretive surveillance court system, which is charged with reviewing the government’s applications for gathering foreign intelligence inside the United States. Tymkovich, who has been a judge on the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit since…
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In 2-1 decision, 10th Circuit upholds terrorism convictions and foreign surveillance protocols
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It was not a constitutional violation for two men charged with terrorism-related offenses to wait six-and-a-half years before receiving a trial, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Wednesday, while also upholding the government’s surveillance framework for suspected national security threats. In a pair of decisions spanning 280 pages, a panel of the U.S.…
