Promoting Accountability: State and Federal Officials Shouldn't Be Above the Law
Promoting Accountability: State and Federal Officials Shouldn’t Be Above the Law Getty/Raymond Boyd Sam Hananel Introduction and summary This summer, Black Lives Matter protests opposing police brutality and systemic racism swept the nation. The federal government’s use of federal troops to violently quell these protests illustrated two legal doctrines in pressing need of reform—qualified immunity and Bivens liability. As courts over the years have expanded qualified immunity and narrowed Bivens liability, these two doctrines now provide state and federal government officials near-...
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