WSJ: How the Warren Court Enabled Police Abuse

WSJ: How the Warren Court Enabled Police Abuse by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman (“‘Qualified immunity’ lets cops avoid accountability. It’s an invention of the liberal chief justice.”):

Senate Republicans have an opportunity to reverse one of Chief Justice Earl Warren’s most pernicious legacies—but they seem determined to blow it. Sen. Tim Scott, who is leading the majority’s police-reform effort, said Sunday that abolishing “qualified immunity,” which protects law-enforcement officers from lawsuits under a law known as Section 1983, is “off the table.” Police unions, Mr. Scott said, view it as a “poison pill.”