Arizona senator moves to ban unconstitutional NSA spying

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Arizona Sen. Kelli Ward announced Monday that she will act to ban the National Security Agency from unconstitutional operations in her state. Ward describes her nullification legislation, the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, as a pre-emptive strike against the embattled agency.

“While media attention is focused on a possible effort to shut off water to the NSA data center in Utah, I’m introducing the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act to back our neighbors up,” Ward said, referencing actions by Utah’s privacy advocates to drive the agency from its borders.

“Just in case the NSA gets any ideas about moving south, I want them to know the NSA isn’t welcome in Arizona unless it follows the Constitution. There is no question that the NSA program, as it is now being run, violates the Fourth Amendment. This is a way to stop it.” 

The Tenth Amendment Center, an organization committed to the study and advocacy for state and individual sovereignty issues, provided the template legislation. The law, if passed, would prohibit state resources for NSA operations, ban local law enforcement from supporting the NSA’s operations in Arizona, invalidate evidence or data collected without a warrant and sanction companies cooperating with the agency.