The way around this is jury nullification. A lot of people do not know that as a juror you have the right to judge the person AND the law. So, even if the law is broken you can still say Not Guilty because you don't agree with the law. The judge will try to intimidate you but it is the law that you can judge the law.

This is not the first time there have been corrupt judges in America. Corruption was rampant at the start of the US. The first edition of Poor Richard authored by Ben Franklin discussed the bribes to corrupt judges. The way to keep people accountable is for YOU to know the law and second, YOU reject what you don't agree with.

There is little difference between snooping through your handwritten notebooks or your cell phone. Back at the start of the country there was no wired communication so your letters and effects would have completely covered all personal papers AND all communications with other people. To complain that this would somehow jeopardize the nation is silly. It really jeopardizes the citizens.

The first thing an foreign invader would do would be to troll through all that NSA data and use it to pick out people they did not like.

OK. so your OK with with spying. You're a good person. You have nothing to hide. But are you OK with all of that information going to enemies of the USA? Maybe you belong to an environmental group and the invaders really want Alaskan oil and to strip mine for rare earth minerals. Now you are really on a list and it's not just snooping anymore.