Comment by mothballed 13 hours ago
Lol litigating against federal officials that are even in the most tangentially plausible way executing their orders, or even worst state officials acting as part of a federal task force (not only have federal form of QI/sovereign immunity but can play state/federal jurisdiction fuck fuck games on top of that) is next to impossible.
I think the point is:
It's bizarre (and not at all in keeping with the western legal tradition) that particular people can essentially not be named as defendants in a civil matter depending on their employer.
Even the "benefit of clergy" claimed by the perpetrators of the Boston massacre did not, as far as I know, preclude civil proceedings against them.
Elections are not a good tool to determine which civil matters may proceed, and particularly blunt if the mechanism is based on who changes state employment status on their basis.
> litigating against federal officials ... is next to impossible.
it's done through elections, and DOJ efforts in the next admin, sort of? (this has all become even more political the last 5 years)