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If I read Stephen's article correctly and understand what happened, this was a civil rights lawsuit based on violation of their Constitutional rights against search & seizure (which IMO is actually worse, because the Bush judge claimed they didn't have that right).

I haven't read either the complaint or the decision (which ... given what I've read so far, is going to require some additional vodka or other embalming fluid given what this racist Republican's "interpretation" of POCs' civil rights under the law appears to be - and especially given that one of Repugnican's general goals is deprivation for marginalized people of their money and property so as to try to force them - us - to accept 2nd class caste 'citizenship' on their terms) -- but it's looking from a first reading as though the plaintiff's attorneys didn't sue for fraud or embezzlement in the alternative.

In order to allege theft they would've had to get a prosecutor to press charges.

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No consent decree?

I'm not sure Jeff Sessions got around to dismantling Baltimore's before he had to leave for not doing ALL the criminal will of the wanna-be dictator who appointed him.

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