JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge.
The United States removed this pro se case from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1442(a), 1446 and 2679(d)(2). Not. of Removal of a Civil Action, ECF No. 1. It contends that the complaint against the federal defendants seeking $50 million confers original jurisdiction in this Court under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1346. Id. ¶¶ 2, 5 (renumbered). In addition to the federal defendants, plaintiff has sued District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine. Pending are the Federal Defendants' Motion to Dismiss under Rules 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, ECF No. 4, and the District of Columbia Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the Amended Complaint or, in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment, ECF No. 22.
The federal defendants seek dismissal on the grounds of sovereign immunity and frivolousness. The FTCA is a statute that waives the United States' immunity under certain circumstances, and the federal defendants have not articulated a specific reason why dismissal is appropriate under the FTCA. See Fed. Defs' Mem. of P. & A. at 5-7. Hence, the Court declines to dismiss on sovereign immunity grounds.
The Court has carefully reviewed plaintiff's allegations in the original complaint and the supplemental complaint, ECF No. 12-1, as well as those in the amended complaint, ECF No. 19-1, where plaintiff invokes the Constitution, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332 and 1346(b). See Am. Compl. ¶ 11. As explained below, the allegations are so lacking in factual or legal support as to deprive this Court of subject matter jurisdiction. Consequently, the Court will grant the defendants' respective motions and will dismiss the case. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(h)(3) (requiring dismissal of an action "at any time" the
Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, and it is presumed that "a cause lies outside this limited jurisdiction." Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377, 114 S.Ct. 1673, 128 L.Ed.2d 391 (1994); see also Gen. Motors Corp. v. Envtl. Prot. Agency, 363 F.3d 442, 448 (D.C.Cir.2004) (noting that "[a]s a court of limited jurisdiction, we begin, and end, with an examination of our jurisdiction"). "A complaint may be dismissed on jurisdictional grounds when it `is patently insubstantial,' presenting no federal question suitable for decision." Tooley v. Napolitano, 586 F.3d 1006, 1009 (D.C.Cir. 2009) (quoting Best v. Kelly, 39 F.3d 328, 330 (D.C.Cir.1994)). Dismissal on jurisdictional grounds is also warranted when the complaint "recit[es] bare legal conclusions with no suggestion of supporting facts, or postulat[es] events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind." Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C.Cir.1981). Moreover, "federal courts are without power to entertain claims otherwise within their jurisdiction if they are `so attenuated and unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit.'" Hagans v. Lavine, 415 U.S. 528, 536-37, 94 S.Ct. 1372, 39 L.Ed.2d 577 (1974) (quoting Newburyport Water Co. v. Newburyport, 193 U.S. 561, 579, 24 S.Ct. 553, 48 L.Ed. 795 (1904)).
Plaintiff alleges that lead defendant "Resident Agency Martinsburg ... is a federal agent also known as ... Agents Martinez, Federal Agent in Martinsburg, WV." Compl., ECF No. 1-1, p. 13.
The largely incoherent allegations comprising the complaint and subsequent pleadings warrant dismissal of this action under Rule 12(b)(1). See Tooley, 586 F.3d at 1010, citing with approval Curran v. Holder, 626 F.Supp.2d 30, 33-34 (D.D.C. 2009) (dismissing case as patently insubstantial where plaintiff allegedly was "subjected to a campaign of surveillance and harassment deriving from uncertain origins"); see also Walsh v. Hagee, 900 F.Supp.2d 51, 58-59 (D.D.C.2012), aff'd, No. 12-5367, 2013 WL 1729762 (D.C.Cir.