Court Opinion

ID: 9431172
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:31:31.306237+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:27.288771
License: Public Domain

Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion, because of the persuasive evidence it marshals for the proposition that Congress intended the CSRA to “replac[e] the patchwork system with an integrated scheme of administrative and judicial review, designed to balance the legitimate interests of the various categories of federal employees with the needs of sound and efficient administration.” Ante, at 445. I do not believe, nor do I read the majority opinion to suggest, that our well-established aversion to recognizing “implied” repeals of remedial provisions or of judicial review is any weaker when what is “repealed” finds its source in our cases rather than in specific statutory texts. For example, this Court long has recognized that the Constitution itself supports a private damages action against a federal official, Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388 (1971), and that the courts’ common-law power to vindicate constitutional rights, see Davis v. Passman, 442 U. S. 228 (1979); Carlson v. Green, 446 U. S. 14 (1980), is not lightly to be set aside.