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Qualified Immunity: The Supreme Court’s Unlawful Assault on Civil Rights and Police Accountability
by Jay Schweikert, The Cato Institute
Our primary federal civil rights statute, colloquially called “Section 1983,” says that any state actor who violates someone’s constitutional rights may be sued in federal court. This remedy is crucial not just to secure relief for individuals whose rights are violated, ...
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