{"id":44169,"date":"2020-06-18T07:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44169"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:27:49","slug":"cato-org-supreme-court-refuses-to-reconsider-qualified-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44169","title":{"rendered":"Cato.org: Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Qualified Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cato.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/supreme-courts-dereliction-duty-qualified-immunity\">Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Qualified Immunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Supreme Court on Monday denied all of the major cert petitions raising the question of whether\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlawfulshield.com\/frequently-asked-questions-about-qualified-immunity\/\">qualified immunity<\/a>\u00a0should be reconsidered. Qualified immunity is a\u00a0judicial doctrine that shields state officials, including law enforcement, from liability when they violate people\u2019s constitutional rights. For the last several years, Cato has been leading the campaign to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/qualified-immunity\">abolish qualified immunity<\/a>. \u201cIt is now all the more urgent that Congress move forward on this issue,\u201d says Cato scholar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/people\/jay-schweikert\">Jay Schweikert<\/a>, \u201cand ensure that all public officials\u2014especially members of law enforcement\u2014are held accountable for their misconduct.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/qualified-immunity\">End Qualified Immunity<\/a>\u201d Cato Project<\/p><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/supreme-courts-dereliction-duty-qualified-immunity\">The Supreme Court\u2019s Dereliction of Duty on Qualified Immunity<\/a>,\u201d by Jay Schweikert<\/p><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/officer-involved-killing-george-floyd\">George Floyd\u2019s Death Must Be a\u00a0Catalyst for Accountability<\/a>,\u201d by Clark Neily<\/p><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/quarter-century-cato-research-police-accountability\">A Quarter Century of Cato Research on Police Accountability<\/a>,\u201d by Walter Olson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato.org: Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Qualified Immunity:<\/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-44169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169","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=44169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44171,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169\/revisions\/44171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}