Interesting to note a coalition of left wing groups brought the suit against the police powers, even though right wing politicians are who could be put under surveillance.

Judges in Karlsruhe opened a two-day hearing on Tuesday into the state’s 2017 and 2018 changes that expanded police powers in cases of a merely “impending threat.”

The law lowered the threshold for action in cases involving threats to state security, life and health. It allows police to use tools that include covert searches of phones and computers, undercover officers, drones, and surveillance to determine whether a concrete threat may emerge.