The Supreme Court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued over his role in the post-9/11 arrest of former University of Idaho football player Abdullah al-Kidd, shown here in Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2011. By a 5-3 vote, the court said Ashcroft did not violate the constitutional rights of al-Kidd, an American Muslim who was arrested in 2003 under a federal law intended to make sure witnesses testify in criminal proceedings, but who was never charged with a crime.
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