alt Hacker NewsTo seek damages in a court you must show that you have suffered specific harm that the court can remedy.
“People in the government violated my privacy by reading my private information”, on its own, is not a harm the court can fix.
If the legislature wants to assign a monetary value to that, they can.
To seek damages in court, you must spend more than taxpayer-funded legal defendants to begin to establish the specific harm.
Your next vote should consider an innocent-until-proven-guilty doctrine that provides potential American citizen victims of Border Patrol overreach a taxpayer-funded Consitutional lawyer in court and a trial in front of a jury of their peers.
Your tax dollars are already being used to harass and falsely detain Americans, might as well also spend your tax dollars on defending the innocent (which might be you next year). Maybe the American Government will stop falsely detaining citizens if it becomes more expensive for taxpayers.