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FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be sued by a former Sept. 11 detainee who claimed he was abused because of his religion and ethnicity, a sharply divided Supreme Court said Monday in a decision that could make it harder to sue top officials for the actions of low-level operatives.

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    FrankHummel7 months ago

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    THIS is a constructive-demonstration-proof example PRECISELY why we NEED Justices to be appointed to that august instititution who have some actual EMPATHY for litigants!

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      FrankHummel7 months ago

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      P.S. I hope Sotomayor will prove to actually be the first of a NUMBER of such!

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