The federal government drove Abisai Rivera-Guerrero to the brink of sanity — and 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt doesn’t like it one bit.

In a unanimous opinion Wednesday, Reinhardt became the latest in a line of federal judges to express acute discomfort with the government forcing anti-psychotic medications on mentally ill patients to make them competent for trial.

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