Posted on 06/09/2022 8:55:51 AM PDT by CodeToad
The Supreme Court has weighed in on when federal law enforcement agents can be sued for excessive force.
In a 6 – 3 decision on Wednesday, the court ruled against a man who had sued a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent for use of excessive force, USA Today reported.
Robert Boule, the owner of the bed and breakfast, Smuggler’s Inn in Blaine, Washington, said that a border patrol agent had pushed him to the ground in 2014 and said that after he reported the agent to his superiors the agent reported him to the IRS.
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“The 6-3 conservative majority of the Roberts Court, once again, closes the courthouse door on individuals victimized by governments abuse of power, this time holding that federal border guards cannot be sued, even for flagrant constitutional violations,” he said. “It is a grave error that betrays our Constitution.”
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativebrief.com ...
The McCloskey's were also denied redress of the government by the USSC this week.
P.S. FR Rules require this "Conservative Brief" article to be placed in Bloggers section.
From just title read I thought it was an illegal doing the suing — good.
But after reading one sees this is VERY BAD for US citizens.
Damn the USSC.
After being abused myself as a young man by border patrol agents, I have had a bit of a problem with my attitude toward them since.
This applies to any area within 100 miles of the border. Since that includes coast lines, that’s most of the population of the US!
I’ve never had a positive interaction with border patrol. I’ve been held at the border and inland checkpoints several times and I’m as white as they come. Fortunately, each time I had my passport. They denied the validity of my military dependents’s ID card and my reserve ID card, claiming it doesn’t prove you are a citizen, which is true, but it does give reason to be in the US.
I’m not for open borders and I sympathize with border agents and their mission, but from my personal experience, many are less than kind.
“In other words, our government is beyond the reach of the people in our own courts.”
In other words, the USSC does not make laws.
“In other words, the USSC does not make laws.”
They just did.
“But after reading one sees this is VERY BAD for US citizens.
Damn the USSC.”
As a conservative you should support this decision.
Separation of powers and all that.
Get your facts right instead of just trolling me.
You really are known as stupid. No one ‘trolled’ you.
You constantly get things wrong and post like some stupid Bostonian liberal who moved to Austin, bought a truck and gun, and now thinks she’s some kind of swaggering Texas badass.
I do not see anything that directly applies to that shooting.
Based on the utterly weird lethal wound she received, my first impression has always been that the Capitol Police Lieutenant accidentally pulled the trigger, which could have been charged as involuntary manslaughter.
You are of course correct. The whole point of the ruling was that it was the job of CONGRESS and not the courts to create new causes of action.
“At bottom, creating a cause of action is a legislative en- deavor. Courts engaged in that unenviable task must evaluate a “range of policy considerations . . . at least as broad as the range . . . a legislature would consider.”
“When asked to imply a Bivens action, “our watchword is caution.” “[I]f there are sound reasons to think Congress might doubt the efficacy or necessity of a damages rem- edy[,] the courts must refrain from creating [it].”
Far too many people here read a headline or a blog and then respond with appropriate NPC programming that they download from said blog without having a clue about the real issues involved.
I commend you for not succumbing to this temptation.
Thank you!
The Supreme Court is the government. The idea that the government will consistently protect you against the government is insanely naive.
“The idea that the government will consistently protect you against the government is insanely naive.”
It has many timers, so it not insane. Maybe we’ve reached insanity today, but redress of government is always been an American ideal.
Note that I did say “consistently”. Yes, insane.
You obviously did not read the decision nor the dissenting opinions.
The decisions placed yet another burden of test to insulate the government from lawsuits. The court has tied itself into a pretzel trying to do that.
It is stupid to go after the individual agent and not the agency he worked for in this case CBP/DHS.
No, all the SCOTUS did wasdo what Deep State dictated.
That’s all the SCOTUS is anymore.
A rubber stamp for Deep State
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