Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE

• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actually no, qualified immunity shields them personally. A tortured orecedent, if the exact situation has not happened and been sued on it gets thrown out, or some ridiculous thing like that.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    oh gods we’re talking about all different kinds of immunity here it’s not just qualified immunity.

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  • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Qualified immunity can be stripped. It’s not absolute. Constitutional violations are absolutely grounds for losing qualified immunity.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In theory or what? Last I heard they were virtually immune. Courts are getting worse, not better too, and judges decide.

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      • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Judges are appointed for life; there’s really no reason why they would match lock step with Trumps orders. Yes they’re conservative (not all of them), but I don’t believe they’re going to break the law or compromise their integrity for Trump.

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