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The Federal Officer Accountability Act (Law Students Call on Congress) 

As reported in several places, a student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act, which would create a legal remedy for violations of the Constitution by federal officers. You can read the letter here. As reported from Above The Law:

student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability. But Congress could, if it wanted to, put a stop border enforcement’s cheat codes by statutorily authorizing lawsuits against federal officers for constitutional violations.

Joe Patrice, Thousands Of Law Students Demand Congress Allow The Constitution To Apply To ICE, Above The Law, Feb. 11, 2026; see also Amelia Dal Pra, ICE Officers Should Be Held Accountable. These Law School Students Know How, The Nation, Feb. 9, 2026; Julianne Hill, Law Students Demand Loophole Shielding Federal Officers from Civil Suits Should be Closed, ABA Journal, Feb. 11, 2026.


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