While the Supreme Court Justices seem to recognize that they‘ll eventually need to determine the constitutionality of the NSA‘s surveillance efforts, for now it‘s not letting cases about it jump the line to be heard. Back in November, it rejected an attempt by EPIC to skip the long process of first getting district court and appeals court rulings, and bring the issue straight to the Supreme Court. And now it‘s done the same thing in a case that tried to skip the appeals court step.