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Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-l...



I didn't realize that statute applied to non-violent violations, thank you.


Never heard of this law before... Thanks!


This is essentially the Federal Government biggest single gun against local corruption - as I recall, it's what officers who beat Rodney King were eventually prosecuted under.


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It doesn’t work that way. If it did, the current Supreme Court could be prosecuted for impending a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, which was decided by a previous Supreme Court.




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