{"id":44120,"date":"2020-06-15T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44120"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:06:34","slug":"npr-supreme-court-will-not-reexamine-doctrine-that-shields-police-in-misconduct-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44120","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Supreme Court Will Not Reexamine Doctrine That Shields Police In Misconduct Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/15\/876853817\/supreme-court-will-not-re-examine-doctrine-that-shields-police-in-misconduct-sui\">Supreme Court Will Not Reexamine Doctrine That Shields Police In Misconduct Suits<\/a> by Nina Totenberg (&#8220;Amid the tumult over police brutality allegations across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to reexamine the much-criticized, modern-day legal doctrine created by judges that has shielded police and other government officials from lawsuits over their conduct. In an unsigned order, the court declined to hear cases seeking reexamination of the doctrine of &#8216;qualified immunity.&#8217; Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the &#8216;qualified immunity doctrine appears to stray from the statutory text.'&#8221;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: Supreme Court Will Not Reexamine Doctrine That Shields Police In Misconduct Suits by Nina Totenberg (&#8220;Amid the tumult over police brutality allegations across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to reexamine the much-criticized, modern-day legal doctrine &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-44120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44121,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}