Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE
hector@lemmy.today 3 hours agoActually 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.
Abundance114@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Qualified immunity can be stripped. It’s not absolute. Constitutional violations are absolutely grounds for losing qualified immunity.
hector@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
In theory or what? Last I heard they were virtually immune. Courts are getting worse, not better too, and judges decide.
Abundance114@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 21 minutes ago
Thats a naive take considering all the ridiculous rulings coming from SCOTUS, the highest court in the land.