Last month, I wrote about an example about how lawless police have become in America, noting that in recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of Martin v. United States “a lawyer for the US government argued, in the case concerning a wrong house being hit by a brutal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) no-knock SWAT raid, that it is acceptable for police not to even check the house number out front before detonating an explosive in a house, knocking down a door, and rushing in guns drawn.”
Here is an update. On Thursday the Supreme Court’s justices unanimously ruled that in this instance the people who lived in the wrongly raided home can move forward, after being blocked at the district and appellate court levels, with their lawsuit seeking compensation from the US government.
This is only a partial victory for the wrongful raid victims. The Supreme Court did not find the government at fault or award any damages. Rather, it sent the case back with instructions for consideration in the lower court, where the plaintiffs may continue their pursuit of justice.
