• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I feel like wearing a shirt critical of Trump and walking past the reflecting pool right now might be an effective way to bait a federal thug into doing something you could sue the government over.

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        IANAL, but it’s a hypothetical (and a joke). If you get charged with vandalizing the pool or beaten for no other reason than wearing a shirt, you could probably win that lawsuit. There’s a lot of things they could do to ‘punish’ you that you couldn’t win a lawsuit over, like detaining.

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          The Federal government has to allow you to sue them. Soverign Immunity is what it’s called, and it applies to most countries in some form.

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          4 cops saw you “pouring a liquid into the pool”.
          Their witness accounts don’t match up and 3 of them were on the other side of the city at the time, but the judge believes them anyway.