Last week, we noted the ridiculousness of the DOJ‘s attempted defense of the government‘s use of Section 215 of the Patriot Act to scoop up all phone records on every call, claiming a very twisted definition of „relevant“ among other things. A variety of folks have been picking apart some of the claims in that analysis, and Orin Kerr has detailed some specific problems with the case law that the DOJ uses to back up its definition of „relevance.“