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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You might be interested to know that cops, judges, politicians, and all other government officials don't actually have Qualified Immunity according to the full text of section 1983 of the federal code. The SCOTUS wasn't handed the full text in 1982 when they heard Harlow V Fitzgerald. The text was changed illegally in 1874 by one guy when he copied the 1871 Congressional Record into the Federal Register.

Look up "16 crucial words that went missing from a landmark civil rights law" for more info.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look up “16 crucial words that went missing from a landmark civil rights law” for more info.

Why would you go through that entire description and end with that instead of just linking an article about it?

https://irishchronicle.com/politics/16-crucial-words-that-went-missing-from-a-landmark-civil-rights-law/

(Having said that, thanks for bringing it up, I hadn't heard about this.)

[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(Not OP) Thanks but that particular article is AI generated garbage (or just thesaurus generated plagiarism) - you can tell when they replace technical terms like 'judgement' or 'decision' with synonyms like 'choice'

While the Cato Institute are some sort of libertarian think-tank, at least this is a real human-written article, and it links back to some better sources:

https://www.cato.org/blog/judge-willett-concurrence-highlights-qualified-immunitys-flawed-foundation