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spathi_fwiffo on April 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Obama Administration Has Embraced Legal Theori...

How it is:

- Since our legal advisor claims that it is possibly legal, I will do the thing. In the case that someone has grounds to challenge the thing, I will face no penalty because I acted in good faith based on legal advice.

If a normal citizen tried that shit, they'd be rotting in jail.

bediger4000 on April 7, 2016 [–]

I've been wondering about the "good faith" assumption that law enforcement, and some other government employees get.

Is that just a by product of the courts and law enforcement basically being two heads of the same beast or is there something else at work?

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