The Supreme Court's allowing a Bivens Action is based on a citizen not having sufficient redress. Certainly, a Federal employee being treated prejudicially in the Federal procedural process is being denied this level of redress assumed to exist by the Supreme Court. In fact, she has no more procedural and substantive provisions for giving meaningful remedies than a non-Federal employee. People who might be in a position to protect the citizenry, are subject to extreme retaliation without unimpeded recourse to the US Federal Court system. Contrary to abusers in the private sector of the economy, innocent Americans can still be victimized by the vast majority of government employees who know they will be protected from personal liability and responsibility.
Federal employees are even more vulnerable to abuse by their co-workers.
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