"No Official, High or Petty, Can Prescribe What Shall Be Orthodox"
"in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
"in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
"An individual's right to speak is implicated when information he or she possesses is subjected to restraints on the way in which the information might be used or disseminated."
The family of George Floyd probably won't be able to successfully sue Derek Chauvin in civil court because of qualified immunity, but they will help pay for the killer cop's retirement.
Pundits often speak of the judiciary in terms of liberal or conservative judges issuing liberal or conservative opinions. The reality is far more complicated.
The decision says the "unbridled and unfettered consolidation of authority in one unelected official" violates due process and the separation of powers.
Citing work from Reason, players and coaches from the NFL, NBA, and MLB are urging Congress to end qualified immunity.
If this is what cities are paying billions for, no wonder people are calling for defunding.
For those who have been advising Americans for years that we should lay down our own weapons and trust armed government employees, this year has been a massive reality check.
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Ninth Circuit allows plaintiffs to challenge California statute that bars students from attending some for-pay trade schools unless the students have a high school diploma, have a GED, or can pass a government-prescribed test.
All that accomplishes is encouraging us to view our fellow Americans as enemies, to see ourselves as members of warring tribes rather than citizens of a nation.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R–Calif.) announced he will support the Ending Qualified Immunity Act.
Both companies need to join IBM and others in entirely abandoning the development of this mass surveillance technology.
Responding to a medical alert they knew was erroneous, White Plains officers killed the man they supposedly were trying to help.
It's a perverse kind of progress, but it's progress all the same.
“Officers don’t have the time to pull out law books and analyze the fine points of judicial precedent.”
"For me, demands for silence, for avoidance, or for bowdlerization will be offered no deference."
This unilateral executive action has been scrutinized by both Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr.
With Trump opposed too, there's little hope that a serious police reform bill will get through Congress anytime soon.
Is the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone a brave experiment in self-government or just flash-in-the-pan activism?
The state boasts of blocking 754 illegal purchases, but it wrongly tagged 101,047 law-abiding people as prohibited. Any of them could have been targeted.
Statements by China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea use U.S. violence against protesters and journalists to point out American hypocrisy on the global stage.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is "a precedent-setting error of exceptional public importance," writes dissenting judge.
No, we should interrogate its persistent popularity and our relationship to it as forcefully as possible.
The doctrine lets courts allow public universities to get away with eroding their students’ speech rights.
Abolishing qualified immunity is a crucial step in holding police accountable for violating our rights.
"Absent some concrete threat to the officers, which has not been suggested here, there is no principled way to discern why this case would justify redactions while others would not."
No, if the city endorses the messages as its own.
Federal spending on policing has quadrupled since the 1980s, while state and local spending has increased by about one-third.
There's no evidence to support the claim that 75-year-old Martin Gugino is part of antifa.
With a special cameo appearance by Eric Holder.
It's not likely to have the chilling effect he expects. Unfortunately, it might not do as much as criminal justice reformers expect either.
An interesting illustration of the qualified privilege that many courts recognize in such cases.
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
Not much as a legal matter, as best I can tell. [See UPDATE.]
UCLA says complaints -- about the fact that both the excerpt read from King's letter and the video included the word "nigger" -- have "been shared with UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for review."
Saturday afternoon's protests in the nation's capital saw huge crowds, few police, and no violence.
The GOP claims to be the party of freedom. If that's true, they should rethink policies that embolden bad police behavior.
His famous line that a "riot is the language of the unheard" is often taken out of context.
and other state (but not federal) intellectual property claims brought over platforms' hosting of third-party content.