Loophole could let citizens hit ICE agents with barrage of lawsuits: expert

Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar penned a legal review article nearly four decades ago in 1987 that lawyer and journalist Adam Liptak argued Monday could very well be the “key” to holding federal immigration agents accountable amid the ongoing and chaotic immigration enforcement operations.

“I think it was a good idea then, and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing,” Amar told The New York Times reported Monday.

In the legal review article...