Supreme Court Declines X’s Challenge to Surveillance Gag Order

The Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal by social media company X that challenged a law preventing the company from disclosing how often the federal government sought monitoring of social media users. X, originally known as Twitter, had said the U.S. government’s ban on disclosing the exact number of receipts of national security-related requests for surveillance of users was unconstitutional. X is owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who also heads SpaceX and Tesla. The Supreme Court rejected the petition for certiorari, or review, in X Corp. v. Garland, in an unsigned order on Jan. 8. No justices dissented. The Court did not explain its decision....