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Jeff Byrnes 🚰 🏙️
@thejeffbyrnes.com
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🎸 🎻 bassist 👨🏻💻 SRE manager @ athenahealth 🏗️ Steering Committee member & co-founder of Somerville YIMBY 🎮 video gamer 👔 snappy dresser 📚 avid reader 🗺️ Somerville, MA, USA
![When Do the Government's Lies Violate the Constitution?
The government’s lies violate the Constitution when they deprive the government’s targets of their constitutional rights as effectively as the government’s action. Think, for instance, of law enforcement officers’ lies about the existence of a search warrant (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/391/543/) to trick their targets into permitting a search of their home. Or governmental lies about the consequences of exercising constitutional rights—like police officers’ false claims (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/528/) that a suspect’s child would be taken away from her unless she waived her rights to a lawyer and to remain silent. Or prosecutors’ lies through fake subpoenas that falsely stated (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/19-30197/19-30197-2020-04-21.html) that “[a] fine and imprisonment may be imposed for failure to obey this notice” to deceive crime victims and potential witnesses into coming forward when they otherwise chose not to.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xp3nckvhnz6kbw5gyyowo7t4/bafkreigkfyvtt5jrj4omwuwkldzmb6yymvgsw53gipbyshvxboytqxrwo4)
