The Cops Who Sicced a Dog on a Surrendered Suspect Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Won't Hear the Case.
"I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," writes Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent.
"I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," writes Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent.
"The fundamental protections set forth in our Constitution," Thomas writes, should be "applied equally to all citizens."
Thomas thinks the Supreme Court may have erred in its 1964 NYT v. Sullivan ruling.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has some concerns.
"If Kavanaugh was going to deal a major blow to health care rights during his first session on the court, this would have been the case to do it."
"If you can't debate hard issues honestly, with honor, with integrity, how do we keep a civil society?" Thomas said.
Cornell law professor Michael Dorf asks whether Clarence Thomas would vote to strike down federal laws restricting abortion, on federalism grounds. The answer might well be yes. But the issue would have to be presented to him in the right way.
The justices have passed up one opportunity after another to clarify the boundaries of the constitutional right to arms.
Asset forfeiture has "led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses," Thomas writes.
Correcting a liberal smear about the conservative Supreme Court justice.