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We have FISA courts which allow the government to file charges against a private individual in a way that protects state secrets. Why are citizens not allowed t
by whoopdedo 7y ago
We have FISA courts which allow the government to file charges against a private individual in a way that protects state secrets. Why are citizens not allowed to use these same FISA courts to file suit against the government? With properly authorized attorneys representing both sides cases involving state secrets can be argued. Not allowing citizens to bring cases to these courts is to create two forms of law: one for the people and another sort of law only available to the government to be used against the people. Certainly there must be some standard that says the law must be available to all people or else it isn't justice.
- posterboy 7y agoWouldn't it already be the case, if one can in theory only be damaged as a suspect under these rules, that someone has to keep checks and balances? I mean, however problematic an arrangement for legal defense in this setting is, at least they must have a very high bar of acting on it, if any action could reveal too much. Also, if the only legal defense would be that the evidence was acquired illegally, that's a pretty weak defense, especially if it was simply defined to be legal. The minor problem of damages incured despite being not guilty already existed before--a door broken to search your house will not be repaired by them either way, I don't think. The major problem that amounts to a concpiracy theory of controling politics, influencing supreme court judgement and cetera may be conciderable, but in that case, what's a lawyer going to do about it, huh?