#qualified-immunity

#qualified-immunity

With polls showing more Americans now favor abolishing ICE than keeping it, a lot of people will be disappointed to learn that the law is set up to make it almost impossible to hold anyone accountable for killing Renee Good. From sovereign immunity, to the Federal Officer Removal Statute, to the decline of Bivens, to qualified immunity, the whole system is arrayed to shield federal agents from legal redress.

We look at the protesters in Iran, and they are patriots; they are people who are trying to overthrow a repressive regime, Trent said. Here, if you have protesters, they should be shot in the face, and anybody that does should have absolute immunity. Trent added, So, what's funny to me is, when is violence, when is protest, when is this all acceptable?

In April 2024, current and former athletes from the University of Iowa, Iowa State and Ellsworth Community College filed the lawsuit, alleging that state criminal investigators violated their constitutional rights by using geolocation software, without warrants, to track activity on their cellphones from inside the schools' athletic facilities. The investigation resulted in some criminal charges but more so the loss of NCAA eligibility, which ended the college careers of several athletes.

Mark McNamara will continue having to defend himself against the wrongful-shooting claims of K'aun Green, who McNamara shot four times as Green was exiting a downtown taqueria on March 27, 2022 after a brawl inside the eatery. Green had his hands up while holding a gun above his head pointed up toward the air - a weapon he had disarmed from an assailant inside - when he was shot.