{"id":33889,"date":"2018-07-16T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33889"},"modified":"2018-07-15T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:12:22","slug":"nytimes-advocates-from-left-and-right-ask-supreme-court-to-revisit-immunity-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33889","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Advocates From Left and Right Ask Supreme Court to Revisit Immunity Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/11\/nyregion\/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html\">Advocates From Left and Right Ask Supreme Court to Revisit Immunity Defense<\/a> by Alan Feuer:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An array of criminal justice advocates \u2014 civil libertarians, a law enforcement organization, even a group run by the industrialist Koch brothers \u2014 has joined forces to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider the contentious doctrine of qualified immunity, which permits the authorities to avoid being sued for misconduct even when they violate the law.<\/p>\n<p>In a submission to the high court on Wednesday, the group of advocates cited the now-familiar litany of fatal shootings by police across the country and said that qualified immunity had time and again denied relief to the victims of abuse and had eroded trust in law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficial accountability is in crisis,\u201d it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Advocates From Left and Right Ask Supreme Court to Revisit Immunity Defense by Alan Feuer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33890,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions\/33890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}