WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Disbarred attorney Michael Cohen on Monday rejected his latest attempt to revive his civil rights lawsuit against Don’s former boss.alt Trump.
The judges upheld lower court rulings that said Cohen could not pursue a claim that then-President Trump and other officials violated his rights by placing him in solitary confinement for writing a tell-all book.
In 2020, Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence on various charges related to his work for Trump.
He was under house arrest due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but was returned to prison after refusing to sign a form that would prevent him from speaking to the press or posting on social media.
After 16 days in solitary confinement, a federal judge ordered Cohen’s release, finding that officials retaliated against him for free speech.
Cohen subsequently sued Trump and other officials, seeking damages for, among other things, violations of his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.
He recently This was reported by NBC News If Trump is re-elected in November, he “won’t stop locking people up” unless there is significant obstruction.
However, constitutional claims against individual federal officials are difficult to make as a result of a series of Supreme Court decisions.
The court has made it nearly impossible to bring constitutional suits against individual federal officials in recent years, reversing the 1971 precedent that first allowed them in Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents of the Federal Narcotics Bureau.
In a 2022 case called Egbert v. Boule, the Supreme Court effectively put “Bivens claims” on life support in a decision dismissing claims against a Border Patrol agent.
Like NBC News reported last yearThe 2022 Egbert decision has been cited hundreds of times by lower court judges in rejecting Bivens claims in a wide range of cases that have been argued to be unconstitutional.
A federal judge in New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit highlighted the Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss Cohen’s claims.
Unless Congress passes the law There are several legal avenues to seek accountability when federal officials, including thousands of law enforcement officers, commit illegal acts to allow some form of Bivens claims.