A federal judge in Idaho urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule against the National Security Agency's surveillance program of telephone records while saying his own hands are tied by legal precedent.

Judge B. Lynn Winmill, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Idaho, dismissed a suit challenging the NSA's controversial program on Tuesday. But, in an eight-page memorandum, he said the Supreme Court should take up the issue.

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