Police Immunity, Regulating Business, Covering Trump’s Lies, How We Perceive Migrants

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this listener comment episode, Mike and Jay address the following listener questions: Should police be given the level of qualified immunity from prosecution they currently receive? Will a recent federal court ruling change anything? We need to keep an eye on regulators, but doesn’t Jay think we also need to watch companies? How do we keep companies honest, and working in the best interest of consumers and the public? How can the media balance respect for the office of the presidency with fair coverage of presidential untruths? How do our perceptions of migrants shape our attitudes toward immigration policy? What Mike’s Binge Watching (and reading) While his Wife is Away on a Month-Long International Trip Animal Kingdom Bosch All or Nothing: The Dallas Cowboys Red Oaks Westworld God’s Soldiers: : Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History of the Jesuits. Jonathan Wright Pierre Teilhard De Chardin: Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) What Jay’s Reading Trump’s Critics Desecrate the Holocaust. Jay Winik (Wall Street Journal - Paywall) No, You’re Not Perfect ‘Just the Way You Are’. David French (National Review) Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:05.9	I'm Michael Beranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:09.4	With me today is my regular co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican Factotum, Jay Carson.
0:15.0	Hey.
0:15.7	How are you doing today, Jay?
0:17.6	I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
0:19.7	Well, you know, we have a whole bunch of questions and comments from
0:24.1	listeners, and so let's just plunge right in if you're ready. All right. I'm ready. Fire away.
0:29.9	Well, first, we have Dusty who asks, have we reached a turning point in qualified immunity
0:36.0	with the recent ruling in Brooklyn, or if not,
0:39.5	how do we retreat in our system from potential abuses? So, Jay, I thought this would be a good
0:45.5	question for you to take the lead on, since you are our attorney. I do have some thoughts on it,
0:49.6	but I guess maybe it would be good if you started by maybe explain the listeners what qualified
0:55.3	immunity is.
0:56.3	Yeah, well, the idea of qualified immunity is that public officials and law enforcement
1:03.2	officials have the right to be wrong.
1:07.8	And they won't be held sort of criminally or civilly liable for wrongs that are committed.
1:15.9	When they essentially have a good faith basis to do so, they're acting within the scope of
1:20.2	their duty.
1:22.8	It grows out of the government, the idea that you can't and not to sue the government.
1:30.1	And that was sort of whittled away and changed over the years.
1:33.3	And now you can, of course, sue the government where the government has waived at sovereign
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