A strong piece on how the current doctrine of “qualified immunity” shields government agents who violate people’s rights from accountability. One point I’d add is that the doctrine generates a perverse feedback loop exacerbating its harms. https://nationalreview.com/2018/09/end-qualified-immunity-supreme-court/
https://twitter.com/normative/status/1040356480443187208
Advocates From Left and Right Ask Supreme Court to Revisit Immunity Defense - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Amash, Pressley introduce bipartisan legislation to end qualified immunity | U.S. Representative Justin Amash
https://amash.house.gov/media/press-releases/amash-pressley-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-end-qualified-immunity
Appeals Court Strips Immunity From Abusive Cops Who Assaulted A Compliant Black Man... And The City That Allowed This To Happen | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200619/18181844746/appeals-court-strips-immunity-abusive-cops-who-assaulted-compliant-black-man-city-that-allowed-this-to-happen.shtml
Booker Announces Framework for Comprehensive Police Reform Legislation
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-announces-framework-for-comprehensive-police-reform-legislation
Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform | Elizabeth Warren
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/criminal-justice-reform
Correcting the Record in the Hernandez Briefing - Lawfare
https://www.lawfareblog.com/correcting-record-hernandez-briefing
Federal Judge Calls Out Qualified Immunity's Contribution To Racist Policing | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200805/19173545055/federal-judge-calls-out-qualified-immunitys-contribution-to-racist-policing.shtml
For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/
Frequently Asked Questions About Qualified Immunity – Unlawful Shield
https://www.unlawfulshield.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-qualified-immunity/
George Floyd and the Supreme Court: The court must fix qualified immunity.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-supreme-court-police-qualified-immunity.html
Harris, Markey, Booker Introduce Senate Resolution to Abolish Qualified Immunity for Law Enforcement, Hold Officers Accountable for Police Brutality | U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California
https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-markey-booker-introduce-senate-resolution-to-abolish-qualified-immunity-for-law-enforcement-hold-officers-accountable-for-police-brutality
How 'Qualified Immunity' Protects Cops From Being Held Accountable | HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-qualified-immunity_n_5ef38307c5b66c312681008c
Is Qualified Immunity Unlawful? by William Baude :: SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2896508
Justices Turn Down Trio of Qualified Immunity Doctrine Cases (2)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/justices-wont-hear-trio-of-cases-on-qualified-immunity-doctrine
Left-Libertarian Alliance Introduces House Bill to End Qualified Immunity for Police Officers
https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/left-libertarian-alliance-introduces-house-bill-to-end-qualified-immunity-for-police-officers/
NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain, says it's "imperative" to remove qualified immunity - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qualified-immunity-eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-candidate/
No Qualified Immunity for Deputy in Strip-Search of Six Children | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/conservative-judge-denies-qualified-immunity-for-deputy-after-case-worker-strip-searched-6-kids/
Opinion | Police Officers from Around the World React to U.S. Law Enforcement - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/opinion/police-officers-usa-global.html
Opinion | The George Floyd Protests Won't Stop Until Police Brutality Does - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/george-floyd-protest-police.html
Project on Immunity and Accountability - Institute for Justice
https://ij.org/issues/private-property/project-on-immunity-and-accountability/
Qualified Immunity Is Helping Police Get Away With Murder—And So Are Prosecutors | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/qualified-immunity-helping-police-get-away-murder-so-are-prosecutors-opinion-1510524
Qualified Immunity: Congress's First Step & SCOTUS Follow Through | National Review
https://nationalreview.com/2018/09/end-qualified-immunity-supreme-court/
Qualified Immunity: Explained - The Appeal
https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/
Search - Supreme Court of the United States
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-679.html
Search - Supreme Court of the United States
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Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether To Reconsider Qualified Immunity | Cato @ Liberty
https://www.cato.org/blog/may-15th-supreme-court-will-finally-decide-whether-hear-cases-calling-abolition-qualified
Tear-Gas Grenades and ‘Qualified Immunity’ - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tear-gas-grenades-and-qualified-immunity-11579133525?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
The Case Against Qualified Immunity
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4796&context=ndlr
The Case Against Qualified Immunity by Joanna C. Schwartz :: SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3127031
The New Qualified Immunity by Aaron Nielson, Christopher J. Walker :: SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2676428
The Systems That Protect the Police - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/podcasts/the-daily/george-floyd-protests.html
What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does it Have to Do With Police Reform?
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-qualified-immunity-and-what-does-it-have-do-police-reform
1791 Fourth Amendment1967 Pierson v Ray1971 Bivens v Six Unknown Named Agents1982 Harlow v Fitzgerald1986 Malley v Briggs2001 Saucier v Katz2004 Brosseau v Haugen2009 Pearson v Callahan2011 Ashcroft v Al-Kidd2012 Filarsky v Delia2012 Messerschmidt v Millender2017 Ziglar v Abbasi2018 Kisela v Hughes2020 Black Lives Matter protests42 USC § 1983Qualified immunitySenatorship of Cory Booker
Why Cato Took on Qualified Immunity | Cato @ Liberty
https://www.cato.org/blog/why-qualified-immunity