SCOTUS Stands Up For Qualified Immunity

What A Day

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of police officers in two cases dealing with qualified immunity. Both decisions were unsigned, and none of the justices dissented – a possible indication that they are sadly not planning on overturning qualified immunity entirely any time soon. Boston is poised to elect its first woman of color as mayor, and the election is just two weeks away. We talked with candidate Michelle Wu. And in headlines: former Secretary of State Colin Powell passed away yesterday, the Biden administration is tackling ‘forever chemicals,’ and the union for Chicago Police Officers is fighting the city’s vaccine mandate. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, October 19th. I'm Gideon Resick.
0:08.6	And I'm Josie Duffy-Race. And this is What A Day.
0:11.7	The podcast that has all the potential and promise of Democrats controlling both
0:16.0	houses of Congress.
0:17.5	Yeah, just take a second to forget how it's actually panning out. We are the platonic
0:22.0	ideal of it. We are FDR.
0:24.0	Only the good parts could be clear.
0:26.0	Yeah, none of the bad, only the good.
0:31.0	On today's show, a conversation with the Boston Mayoral candidate plus the Biden
0:34.5	administration takes action against forever chemicals.
0:37.5	But first, we're going to bring you some news from the Supreme Court where the
0:40.0	Justice is ruled in two cases yesterday that deal with when we can hold public
0:44.5	officials accountable for violating a person's civil rights.
0:48.0	So Josie, you've been keeping track of this. Can you tell us a little bit about
0:50.5	these cases?
0:51.5	Yeah. So on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of police officers in two cases
0:55.9	that deal with qualified immunity. Qualified immunity for those who don't know is
1:00.1	a legal doctrine that says cops and other public officials can't be sued in
1:04.4	their individual capacity for misconduct unless they violated, quote, clearly
1:09.3	established rights.
1:11.5	So that's legal speak for basically like cops can beat you up. They can violate
1:14.9	your constitutional rights and not only will they never face criminal charges.
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