You might be interested to know that cops, judges, politicians, and all other government officials don’t actually have Qualified Immunity according to the full text of section 1983 of the federal code. The SCOTUS wasn’t handed the full text in 1982 when they heard Harlow V Fitzgerald. The text was changed illegally in 1874 by one guy when he copied the 1871 Congressional Record into the Federal Register.
Look up “16 crucial words that went missing from a landmark civil rights law” for more info.
You might be interested to know that cops, judges, politicians, and all other government officials don’t actually have Qualified Immunity according to the full text of section 1983 of the federal code. The SCOTUS wasn’t handed the full text in 1982 when they heard Harlow V Fitzgerald. The text was changed illegally in 1874 by one guy when he copied the 1871 Congressional Record into the Federal Register.
Look up “16 crucial words that went missing from a landmark civil rights law” for more info.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Why would you go through that entire description and end with that instead of just linking an article about it?
https://irishchronicle.com/politics/16-crucial-words-that-went-missing-from-a-landmark-civil-rights-law/
(Having said that, thanks for bringing it up, I hadn’t heard about this.)