The key issue before the justices is under what circumstances people can sue the federal government in an effort to hold law enforcement accountable. Martin’s attorneys say Congress clearly allowed for those lawsuits in 1974, after a pair of law enforcement raids on wrong houses made headlines, and blocking them would leave little recourse for families like her.

FBI Atlanta spokesperson Tony Thomas said in an email the agency can’t comment on pending litigation. But lawyers for the government argued in Martin’s case that courts shouldn’t be “second-guessing” law enforcement decisions. The FBI agents did advance work and tried to find the right house, making this raid fundamentally different from the no-knock, warrantless raids that led Congress to act in the 1970s, the Justice Department said in court filings starting under the Biden administration.

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    19 hours ago

    They are both wearing glasses! C’mon! Didn’t nobody show them men in black? Remember the training when they shoot the little girl because she’s the obvious alien?.. Carrying advanced technology books. I don’t if that was right or not, I didn’t write the god damn movie! Shit! All I’m saying is they’re nerds. Nerds don’t harm other people… Except for paid nerds. Paid nerds think its payback and make things like nuklier things and such. Ya know what I’m saying?