Klayman asks Supreme Court to hear NSA case

The conservative legal activist who won the first court ruling questioning the legality of the National Security Agency's massive phone-call tracking database is asking the Supreme Court to short circuit the normal appeals process and take up the case directly.

Attorney Larry Klayman said he sent the unusual petition to the high court. "We went to the Supreme Court because, unlike the government, we're not dragging our feet. We want a quick decision here," Klayman said. The filing, known as a petition for writ of certiorari before judgment, is granted exceedingly rarely by the court. Usually, the justices prefer for cases to have full appellate review and in many cases review by appeals courts from more than one circuit.