Supreme Court Dodges Qualified Immunity Cases
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in a series of cases dealing with qualified immunity – the court-invented rule shielding government…
Police Militarization Back in the Spotlight
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Police departments’ use of military hardware was a big issue for small-government conservatives a few years ago who worried about the implications for…
Qualified Immunity Splits House and Senate
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. House Democrats and Senate Republicans are putting together competing packages of legislation on law enforcement reform. A key sticking point has emerged: what…
New York Repeals Police Secrecy Law
Article from Reason by C.J. Ciaramella. New York lawmakers passed a bill today rolling back a notorious police secrecy law that has hidden misconduct records from the public for decades….
Qualified Immunity Protects Cops Who Arrested and Assaulted Man for Standing Outside His Home
Article from Reason by Billy Binion. Two police officers who allegedly assaulted a man outside of his own house and arrested him on bogus charges after failing to identify themselves…
Gun Control on the Ropes
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Amidst the clamor for justice system reforms in the wake of violence from protestors and police alike comes a radical idea: the gun…
The ‘Whiplash-Inducing Messaging’ on Social Distancing and Protests
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. After more than a week of what are now global protests against police brutality, the obvious question is: weren’t we all supposed to…
Tackling the Problem of Overcriminalization
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Lurking in the background of the unrest gripping parts of the country this week is an old story that needs to be brought…
‘We Don’t Have Law and Order’
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. After the peaceful protests ended in many cities, the rioting began. It wasn’t just graffiti and burning dumpsters. But it was also businesses,…
Judge Willett on the ‘Kudzu-Like Creep of the Modern Immunity Regime’
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Federal appeals court Judge Don Willett was long noted for his pithy and pointed opinions while a member of the Texas Supreme Court….