Interesting point raised by Clif: all persons employed by public agencies in the US, from school boards to governors, have a surety bond issued in their name, usually held by major insurance companies, to cover the agency for lawsuits against such persons while acting in their official capacity. Just think how many of those instruments exist in the entire country and how insurance companies would react to the prospect of having to pay out increasing amounts for tens of thousands of lawsuits. C.A. Fitts would undoubtedly have something to say about this too.
Sounds like an interesting strategy, at least in theory. Iâve been surprised there hasnât been more âlawfare,â especially in the U.S.
Possible obstacles: It takes some amount of money just in court costs to file lawsuits. More important, you need lawyers willing to represent plaintiffs â and to do so pro bono. There hasnât exactly been an army of litigators stepping forward, only a courageous few here and there. If lawsuits started getting filed en masse, Iâm guessing many judges would start throwing the cases out as frivolous (or on some other pretext) or that insurance companies would get legislation passed to make the lawsuits impossible. But the lawsuits might do some good in the meantime.
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Yes, the efforts by Dr David Malone to provide strong evidence for use in potential legal cases involving ALL Federal and Local Government employees has been ongoing and very strongâŚyet there doesnât seem to be much take-up of such cases, or if so, we arenât seeing that. One wonders if the whole of the Judiciary system, supposedly âIndependentâ is just ads captured as every other public institution 
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Or, simply pass a law and make it legal, ⌠even years ago.
Like they did w/the telecommunication companies; backing dating the law.
So the tele-companies do didnât break the law⌠[technically].
After all, âtheyâ are a technocracy.
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The U.S. judiciary is as ethically degraded as the rest of the culture, unfortunately. To say nothing of control files and other outside pressuresâŚ