Writing at USAToday earlier this week, former BJC staffer Buzz Thomas explains "why we should care about cases like Salazar v. Buono."
Citizens should be able to hold their government accountable.
Is this not a basic premise of our constitutional arrangement? That "we the people" have delegated a finite amount of power to our government in order to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?" And that citizens who are injured (not just physically) by that government should have their day in court?
