Obama Surveillance Suit by Rand Paul Spurs Lawyer Fight

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A legal challenge to the National Security Agency’s telephone data surveillance program by Senator Rand Paul was followed by a dispute between two high-profile Republican lawyers over authorship of the complaint.

Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein wrote the complaint and was replaced as its author by Kenneth Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, according to Fein’s spokeswoman.