Readers following EPIC’s petition at the Supreme Court seeking review of the government’s telephony metadata program will be interested in this memorandum DOJ filed today in support of dismissing a complaint in a similar challenge brought by the ACLU in the South District of New York. The first ten pages of the government’s memorandum raise procedural objections; the next twenty pages cover the merits. Based on a quick skim, the merits analysis largely tracks the Administration’s recent “white paper” defending the program (a document I critiqued here). For more, see the SDNY Blog.