Do we want to do this the easy way or the hard way? That was the question a Chicago federal appeals court recently confronted ...

The legal doctrine of qualified immunity contributes to the erosion of public confidence in policing and makes us all less safe. As it stands, if unlawful or unconstitutional action by a government ...

FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican, reintroduced a bill to codify qualified immunity police protections into law as the 118th Congress kicks off. Banks reintroduced the Qualified ...

What if qualified immunity isn’t real? I don’t mean to say that qualified immunity doesn’t exist. The judicial doctrine, which allows state and local officials to be immune from federal civil rights ...

THE ISSUE UNDER THE LEGAL MICROSCOPE, THERE’S A NEW FOCUS ON THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE IN JACKSON RECENTLY QUESTIONED WHETHER THE PRINCIPLE IS CONSTITUTIONAL THAT HAS BEEN ...

The doctrine of qualified immunity is best known - and most notorious - for protecting police officers from being held liable even for many very egregious violations of citizens' rights. The issue ...

Conservatives who are leery of government power in other contexts often have a blind spot when it comes to police officers. Tough-on-crime instincts, coupled with anger at left-wing critics of police ...

Two police officers who arrested an Iowa college student for driving while intoxicated—even though a breathalyzer test showed he was completely sober—do not get qualified immunity protections for ...

Qualified immunity is aimed at helping government workers do their jobs without fear of excessive and financially damaging lawsuits. Since 2019 there has been a stealth expansion of qualified immunity ...

Anti-police activists and the press tend to reveal their ignorance whenever they discuss qualified immunity. Attempts to strip America’s law enforcement officers of qualified immunity are dangerous ...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (right) and Senator Ed Markey (left). Pressley and Markey reintroduced their Ending Qualified Immunity Act, which is legislation aimed to eliminate the unjust and ...

The Talking-Filibuster Quagmire: Lessons from the Civil Rights Act Partisanship Should Not Drive the Confirmation Process This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 25 This Day in Liberal Judicial ...