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Nov. 18, 2025, 4:37 PM ESTBy Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON — Seizing on allegations of federal law enforcement officials’ committing constitutional violations as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, Democrats have launched a new effort to allow civil rights claims against rogue agents.Lawmakers reintroduced legislation Tuesday that would ensure federal officials, including immigration agents and other law enforcement officers, can be sued individually for constitutional violations.The bill, introduced in the House and the Senate by Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., would amend a post-Civil War-era law that allows such claims against state and local officials to make it clear that federal officials are covered, too.More than 130 arrested in Charlotte immigration raids02:13″Under this lawless administration, federal officers are using excessive force and violating constitutional rights in our streets with impunity,” Johnson said in a statement. “If federal officials violate the Constitution, they should be held accountable, full stop.”The legislation also comes as Republican senators have come under fire for including a provision in the bill that ended the government shutdown that would allow eight GOP senators to sue the Justice Department after their cellphone records were obtained without their knowledge.Since Trump began his second term in January, his administration has launched an aggressive immigration crackdown. Civil rights groups charge that agents have regularly committed constitutional violations by, among other things, using excessive force or carrying out allegedly unlawful entries.A judge in Chicago issued an injunction this month that restricts federal agents’ use of force in response to such allegations.While the focus is ostensibly on immigrants who entered the country illegally, legal residents and some U.S. citizens have also been swept up. Federal officers have also been involved in clashes with protesters.The Supreme Court in 1971 ruled in a case called Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents that federal agents could be sued individually, but the court has since retreated from that finding. In a 2022 ruling, it specifically said Border Patrol agents cannot be individually sued for violating someone’s constitutional rights.In the 12 months after that ruling, lower courts cited it 228 times in a variety of cases against all kinds of federal officials, NBC News found in a 2023 investigation. In 195 of those cases, constitutional claims were dismissed.The legislation, which has been introduced in the past but made little progress, “would reopen the courthouse doors to these victims and encourage more responsible conduct by federal officials,” Whitehouse said in a statement.Under current law, people can sue the federal government directly under a law called the Federal Tort Claims Act, but damages there are limited, and there is no chance of a jury trial.Lawrence HurleyLawrence Hurley is a senior Supreme Court reporter for NBC News.

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Nov. 12, 2025, 1:14 PM EST / Updated Nov. 12, 2025, 2:15 PM ESTBy Corky SiemaszkoThe penny dropped.The U.S. Mint struck the final 1-cent coin that will be used as legal tender on Wednesday, six months after the Trump administration announced that it would stop producing pennies because the cost of making them is almost four times more than they’re worth.From now on, the only new pennies the Mint releases will be collector versions that aren’t currency and will be produced “in limited quantities,” the agency said in a statement. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Treasurer Brandon Beach were at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia when the coin press punched out the historic final penny, the agency confirmed.There are still an estimated 250 billion pennies in circulation, the American Bankers Association said in October.But back in February, President Donald Trump said it made no fiscal sense to keep producing cents.“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump wrote in an online post. “This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”Officially known as the cent, the first penny was struck in 1787 and had a sundial design that was dreamt up by Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers.The U.S. Mint took over penny production in 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act.Like its predecessor, this penny was also made of copper. But it was slightly bigger and came to be known as the “Flowing Hair” cent because it had a woman representing liberty on one side and 15 chain links on the other side.It wasn’t until 1909 that the woman was replaced by President Abraham Lincoln in profile to mark what would have been his 100th birthday.The Mint said that ending penny production will save taxpayers about $56 million annually. And it will continue to be legal tender for as long as its around.That said, the penny is not worth much. You can’t even buy penny candy, which made its debut in 1896, with just a penny.But its cultural value is incalculable.Stingy people still “pinch pennies.” An unexpected windfall is still referred to as “pennies from heaven.” And a fiscal planner who is “penny wise and pound foolish” should be avoided.But after Wednesday, the penny once saved and cherished will be the penny spurned, rather than earned.Corky SiemaszkoCorky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.

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