{"id":44148,"date":"2020-06-17T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44148"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:54:18","slug":"wsj-how-the-warren-court-enabled-police-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44148","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: How the Warren Court Enabled Police Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-the-warren-court-enabled-police-abuse-11592410930\">How the Warren Court Enabled Police Abuse<\/a> by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman (&#8220;&#8216;Qualified immunity&#8217; lets cops avoid accountability. It\u2019s an invention of the liberal chief justice.&#8221;):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Senate Republicans have an opportunity to reverse one of Chief Justice Earl Warren\u2019s most pernicious legacies\u2014but they seem determined to blow it. Sen. Tim Scott, who is leading the majority\u2019s police-reform effort, said Sunday that abolishing \u201cqualified immunity,\u201d which protects law-enforcement officers from lawsuits under a law known as Section 1983, is \u201coff the table.\u201d Police unions, Mr. Scott said, view it as a \u201cpoison pill.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: How the Warren Court Enabled Police Abuse by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman (&#8220;&#8216;Qualified immunity&#8217; lets cops avoid accountability. It\u2019s an invention of the liberal chief justice.&#8221;):<\/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-44148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148","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=44148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44150,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions\/44150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}