In a dissenting opinion published last month in another case dismissing a prisoner’s Bivens claim, Judge David Hamilton of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said such lawsuits are ever more important at a time when allegations are swirling of federal agencies being weaponized to punish political opponents.
But, he wrote, because of the recent Supreme Court rulings, “a federal agent who violates the Constitution to carry out the policies of the federal executive branch now has little to fear in terms of direct accountability.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/portland-protesters-bivens-rcna128596
POPErs may discount it because it starts with Portland, but down the page one finds it’s about every abuse to the Constitution federales do, from taxes to coming to your door and doing you in with no accountability.
Wake up, Trump’s signature is on it with the three monkeys he installed in SCOTUS.
Fascism 101.
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