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The Supreme Court ruled today<\/strong><\/a> that John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued regardless of the crimes committed against American citizens thanks to his policies as Attorney General. <\/p>\n

What a crock. <\/p>\n

On the same theme, Tom Engelhardt<\/strong> has an excellent essay today on “Post-Legal America<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court ruled today that John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued regardless of the crimes committed against American citizens thanks to his policies as Attorney General. What a crock. On the same theme, Tom Engelhardt has an excellent essay today on “Post-Legal America.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,659,22,17,11,662,657,661,26,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-2806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-ashcroft","7":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","9":"tag-elective-dictatorship","10":"tag-justice-department","11":"tag-lying","12":"tag-rule-of-law","13":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-wool"},"yoast_head":"\nSupreme Court Again Absolves Nation's Most Dangerous Criminal Class - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/supreme-court-again-absolves-nations-most-dangerous-criminal-class\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court Again Absolves Nation's Most Dangerous Criminal Class - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court ruled today that John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued regardless of the crimes committed against American citizens thanks to his policies as Attorney General. 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