• hector@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    Actually no, qualified immunity shields them personally. A tortured precedent, if the exact situation has not happened and been sued on it gets thrown out, or some ridiculous thing like that.

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      3 months ago

      Qualified immunity can be stripped. It’s not absolute. Constitutional violations are absolutely grounds for losing qualified immunity.

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        3 months ago

        In theory or what? Last I heard they were virtually immune. Courts are getting worse, not better too, and judges decide.

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          3 months ago

          Judges are appointed for life; there’s really no reason why they would match lock step with Trumps orders. Yes they’re conservative (not all of them), but I don’t believe they’re going to break the law or compromise their integrity for Trump.