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 ...

Ahead of the November election, Gov. Hochul has been cagey when it comes to the legal doctrine that shields law enforcement officers. Lev Radin/Sipa USA Gov. Kathy Hochul refuses to take a stand on ...

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 ...

Some ideas are so terrible that combining them into a cocktail of awfulness makes rotten sense. So it is with gun control and qualified immunity: Why not mix impunity for violating basic rights with ...

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 ...

In a decision today in McKinney v. City of Middletown, Second Circuit judges Guido Calabresi and Steven Menashi spar over the doctrine of qualified immunity. They disagree first over whether the ...

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 ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Desmond Green ...

This is the fourth post in a series on The Fair Notice Rationale for Qualified Immunity (forthcoming Florida Law Review). So far I have argued that: (1) unpredictable adjudications are unfair in the ...

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 ...

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 ...