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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 23h

proceedings.nyumootcourt.org/2022/10/pres...

Preserving the Bivens Doctrine in the Fourth Amendment Context – N.Y.U. Proceedings

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 23h

I've covered such cases against ICE in the past. Some of that coverage is outlined in my book, "Dispatches from the House of Death — A Juarez Cartel informant, a DEA whistleblower, mass murder and a coverup on the edge of the Empire." houseofdeath.org

www.oyez.org

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 23h

Masked ICE agents are violating the 4th Amendment blatantly. The amendment isn't foggy. It doesn't say "citizens." It says "the right of the people" to be secure in their persons and homes. Sue them as John Does. You can if they violate your constitutional rights. I would. See Bivens lawsuit.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 1d

It should be lost on no judge that Trump would not call in the National Guard during a real insurrection and then pardoned the criminals involved.

Now he wants to call on the military, even the 82nd Airborne, to invade US cities so he can intimidate law-abiding citizens who didn't vote for him.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 1d

Trump also is willing to throw in the Brooklyn Bridge, but only if Democrats first agree to cave into his demands.

Trump says he's open to health care deal but government must reopen first

President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two...

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 2d

These ads are running in Seattle, where the police department is already under-staffed by hundreds of officers.

So, our fed tax dollars are being abused to recruit local cops also funded by our taxes. And worse, ICE is wasting tax dollars by offering $50k signing bonuses.

All so ICE can invade us.

ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 3d

Miller's war plan.

AP
Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.

“They are the ones that are making it a war zone" — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 3d

We have plenty of talent on our side of sanity.

Artist Daniel Fried.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing says fighting crime like sending in the 82nd Airborne. Are coffee fiends in Portland flying too high on caffeine? Or maybe slum lords need paratroopers to evict tenants, like in Chicago? This is beyond abuse of power. It's depraved, like what's in the Epstein files. The ooze from sick minds.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 4d

This amounts to a poll tax. I assume it will be appealed?

Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 5d

This is one reason they federal agents are masked. If you know who they are, you can file a Bivens claim against them, and they fear that. It has to change. The masks have to go because they are shielding unconstitutional, extrajudicial violations of constituional rights on a mass scale.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 5d

Media: Those caught up in the Chicago apartment-building raid all have constitutional rights on US soil.

"A Bivens claim is a civil rights lawsuit. You can file a claim if your civil rights have been constitutionally violated by a federal agent..The federal officer can be held personally liable."

Bivens Claim - How to Bring a Lawsuit for Damages

A Bivens claim is a civil rights lawsuit for damages against federal officials. You can file a lawsuit if your civil rights were violated by a federal worker.

www.shouselaw.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 5d

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Narco-Trafficking, Drug Boats and Regime Change

Trump's gunboat terrorism off the coast of Venezuela won’t stop the drug trade, but it may reap him an oil windfall

houseofdeath.org

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 5d

Another "drug boat" blown up, the 4th to date. In the name of fighting terrorism? Can we blow up trucks smuggling cigs and booze now? People died here for a pretense.

Next,

Abortion pills?

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

They don't want us to call them fascists because it's a bad word. Then they should stop doing bad things that are fascistic.

ABC
"My building is shaking. So, I'm like, 'What is that?' Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter," said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

He's definitely at the door. But he's not in the house yet. We have to build a house of stone, not hay or sticks, to keep the big bad wolf at bay.

Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is going down a dark alley by declaring a war on cartels. Drug wars never succeed. You can't ban something so many people want.

Trump is declaring a second Prohibition, launched with the Volstead Act. Only his declaration is a king's order nailed to a tree, along with Republicans' tongues.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

It's still playing out. Events have a way of overtaking operations.

Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway, it is insane. And propaganda pretense for what they will do regardless extrajudicially, unless stopped. We'll see how the military responds. The generals certainly know the history of Mexican President Calderon's bloody failed war on cartels.

Trump and his crew are monsters without a clue.

A Journey into the Dark Heart of the “War for Drugs”

A tale of crime, corruption and treachery in the borderlands

houseofdeath.org

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

That's why Steven Miller is in Memphis telling cops the gloves are off. This is also aimed at the black community and the left. Nixon used the same strategy in launching the first iteration of the war on drugs during the Vietnam era. Because it allowed him to target blacks and anti-war hippies.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

I expected this criminality. Conflating the "war for drugs" with giving Trump war powers. But banks launder the $. So, it's another pretense.

NYT
Police arrest suspected drug dealers; it would be a crime to instead summarily gun them down. But in an armed conflict, it is lawful to kill..on sight.

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

Trump blusters, but the law is above threats and lies.

WaPo
The Antideficiency Act..forbids incurring new expenses during a shutdown..; some federal government officials have concluded the prohibition could extend to the kind of severance payments that accompany reductions in force.

Senior government officials privately warn against firings during shutdown

The Trump administration has said mass firings are coming, but officials have quietly warned several agencies that the move could violate appropriations law.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 6d

The shutdown is a way for pro-democracy voters to take back some control of their runaway government.

I also think it calms more nerves than not. Hell, I'd shut my car down if it was violently knocking and burning black smoke.

I'd push it to the repair shop if I had to before starting it up again.

We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 7d

And there is no illegal drug trade without demand for those drugs. And the US is the biggest straw in the cocaine pile by far, per the same UN report.