The Supreme Court refused Monday to reconsider the legal immunity from lawsuits generally given to police and other public officials accused of misconduct
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court refused Monday to reconsider the legal immunity from lawsuits generally given to police and other public officials accused of misconduct.
But some justices, lower court judges and scholars on both the left and right have questioned that legal doctrine for creating a nearly impossible standard for victims to meet and a nearly blanket immunity for those accused of misconduct. "I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," he wrote."Because our ... qualified immunity doctrine appears to stray from the statutory text, I would grant this petition."
Story continuesIn one case, a Tennessee man was bitten by a police dog unleashed on him while he was sitting with his hands in the air. In another, a 10-year-old Georgia boy was shot in his backyard by police pursuing an unarmed criminal suspect. In a third, police in California searching for a gang member used tear-gas grenades rather than the house key given to them by his ex-girlfriend.
• In 2017, the court ruled that Bush administration officials could not be held liable for the detention and harsh treatment of illegal immigrants in the calamitous days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Two of the court's current justices have pushed back against that trend from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.
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