U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Bar Religious Suits in ‘No Fly’ Case (1)

An appeals court ruling that lets Muslim men sue federal officials for putting them on the no-fly-list “creates significant practical problems both for individual federal employees and the Executive Branch more broadly,” the Justice Department said in a recent appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case tests the ability to vindicate religious freedom violations by way of civil suits against individual federal employees.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s “anomalous” ruling allowing such suits “clears the way for a slew of future suits against national-security officials, criminal investigators, correctional officers, and countless other federal employees, seeking ...