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Opening Arguments

No Matter How Stupid And Evil You Think Qualified Immunity Is, It's Worse

Opening Arguments

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Atheist, Opinion, Harvard, News, Politics, Legal, Law, Liberal, Supremecourt

4.33.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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Qualified Immunity is insane. It's one of several ways that police evade accountability for truly monstrous acts. As unpleasant as that is, we're fortunate to have an amazing guest to take us through the history of it, as well as a new case that may be cause for optimism!

From her UCLA Law bio: Joanna Schwartz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and the Faculty Director of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She teaches Civil Procedure and a variety of courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. She received UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015, and served as Vice Dean for Faculty Development from 2017-2019.

Professor Schwartz is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation and the author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023).

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0:00.0

I hate the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.

0:23.0

This is not a First Amendment thing.

0:26.0

I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Garamand.

0:30.0

Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the

0:37.0

Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so...

0:39.0

Seatbelt sign is on.

0:40.0

But is it against the law though? Hello and welcome to opening arguments.

0:47.0

This is episode one thousand forty nine.

0:49.0

I'm Eroless Thomas Smith.

0:50.0

I am so excited to bring you a fantastic guest talking about a not fantastic thing.

0:55.1

In a moment I will cut over to an interview with not only Matt Cameron who will be there, but

1:00.3

also Professor Joanna Schwartz out of the UCLA School of Law.

1:04.0

She is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct.

1:08.0

She also wrote a book called Shielded

1:10.0

How the Police became Untouchable

1:12.0

and we're going to talk about qualified immunity.

1:13.9

And no matter how mad you are about qualified immunity,

1:17.2

based on, I don't know, whatever your familiarity with it,

1:19.9

I feel like I'm someone who knew about it

1:22.2

and has gone on a deep diver too about it.

1:25.2

Still massively surprised every single time by how stupid and evil it is.

1:30.2

Just the examples, you know, just the cases, absolute evil. I don't remember if we've ever done a deep

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