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DOJ insider Mary Hampton Mason explores how Bivens–which at one time offered a modest but meaningful check on federal power–has been limited by the courts and her work on the matter, and why the Supreme Court should reverse it to allow Congress to pursue legislative avenues for accountability.
Reckoning With Bivens
Reflections from a Justice Department insider who helped build its cage.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
DOJ insider Mary Hampton Mason explores how Bivens–which at one time offered a modest but meaningful check on federal power–has been limited by the courts and her work on the matter, and why the Supreme Court should reverse it to allow Congress to pursue legislative avenues for accountability.
Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. Lawfulness aside, taking a hatchet to DOJ and the FBI emboldens both our foreign and domestic enemies. All of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge
A move to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents comes just a day after President Trump’s pick to lead the agency told Congress that the bureau would not be targeted for political reasons.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. Lawfulness aside, taking a hatchet to DOJ and the FBI emboldens both our foreign and domestic enemies. All of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...