The legislation would create a cause of action in state courts to sue peace officers who “under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including but not limited to failing to intervene, another person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities granted to the person under the constitutions and laws of the United States and this state."
On Tuesday, the New Mexico House passed a bill that would create a process to sue in state court when police use excessive force or take other actions that violate individual rights without the possibility of “qualified immunity” as a defense
The legislation would create a cause of action in state courts to sue a peace officer "who subjects or causes to be subjected, including by failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights arising under Illinois Constitution."
The legislation would create a cause of action in state courts to sue peace officers "who, under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the Bill of Rights, Article II of the Oklahoma Constitution."
States’ Rights: The Foundation of Our Republic
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution
Fighting together in the American Revolution, Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge CREDIT: Dunsmore, John Ward, artist. “Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge.” Reproduction of a 1907 painting. St. Paul, Brown & Bigelow, copyright 1907. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Good Monday morning! I pray y’all enjoyed a loving and blessed Valentine’s Day.
When some gaze upon the title of this week’s missive, they may immediately construct a negative connotation for the words “states’ rights.” There are those who will weigh these words against the annals of American history associated with slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and segregation. The funny thing is that the people who think of state