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Supreme Court Rejects Michael Cohen’s Civil Rights Claim Against Trump

https://conservativebrief.com/scotus-dismisses-86549/

 

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen’s last-ditch attempt to resurrect a civil rights action against his former boss, Donald Trump.

 

The justices upheld lower court decisions that indicated Cohen could not pursue his claim that then-President Trump and other officials violated his rights by keeping him in solitary confinement for writing a tell-all book.

 

At the time of the 2020 incident, Cohen was serving a three-year sentence on a variety of charges related to his work for Trump, NBC News reported.

 

He had been granted home confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but was returned to prison after refusing to sign a form prohibiting him from speaking to the press or posting on social media.

 

After 16 days in solitary confinement, a federal judge ordered Cohen’s release, concluding that officials had retaliated against him on free speech grounds.

 

Cohen subsequently sued Trump and other officials, demanding damages for allegedly violating his Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive searches and seizures, among other things.

 

He previously told NBC News that if Trump is elected for a second term in November, he “won’t stop with just locking people up” until there is a big deterrence.

 

However, a series of Supreme Court decisions have made it notoriously difficult to establish constitutional claims against individual government officials.

 

In recent years, the court has made it nearly impossible to file such civil rights cases due to a 1971 precedent known as Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.