You can't have content without the capability to record that content. You can't have media about the government wihout access to government records. That's the existing standard. The #SupremeCourt has ruled on this already. Now they've shat the bed. They just allowed a lower court to block a case using the voided-by-congress legislated-from-the-bench doctrine called #QualifiedImmunity. This was established settled law before qualified immunity was innovated in the 1960s to protect a cabinet member, let alone in the 1990s when they gave a beat cop the same rules. When #AntoninScalia warned us with a chapter in a book about the court's problems, and #SoniaSotomayor agrees with him, where are the other judges? 

#WTF #News #PublicPolicy #PoliceCorruption #Journalism #1A

https://reason.com/2026/03/24/arresting-a-reporter-for-asking-questions-was-a-blatant-first-amendment-violation-sonia-sotomayor-says

Arresting a reporter for asking questions was a First Amendment violation, Sotomayor says

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the Supreme Court's denial of a petition from a Texas journalist who was charged with felonies.

Reason.com

Once again really disappointed in the US Supreme Court for summarily reversing and dismissing in Zorn v. Linton.

Shela Linton is a personal friend, and she deserves better than this. Justice Sotomayor's dissent lays out clearly why the majority is flatly wrong to issue summary judgement in this case.

#SCOTUS #USpol #QualifiedImmunity #AmendmentIV #PoliceBrutality #Vermont #VT #VTpol #VTpoli

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/zorn-v-linton/

Zorn v. Linton

SCOTUSblog

Once again really disappointed in the US Supreme Court for summarily reversing and dismissing in Zorn v. Linton.

Shela Linton is a personal friend, and she deserves better than this. Justice Sotomayor's dissent lays out clearly why the majority is flatly wrong to issue summary judgement in this case.

#SCOTUS #USpol #QualifiedImmunity #AmendmentIV #PoliceBrutality

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/zorn-v-linton/

Zorn v. Linton

SCOTUSblog

Why it matters:

This decision makes it harder to hold police legally responsible after crowd confrontations, signaling courts are still putting officer protections ahead of protesters' rights.

#QualifiedImmunity #PoliceAccountability #SCOTUS

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.” —Thomas Paine.

One of the biggest issues with #ICE, #CBP, and other federal agencies is so-called #qualifiedImmunity. It allows the agents to act with impunity and leaves those suffering violations of their rights with little recourse.

In this 50min. #Amicus #podcast, law Prof. Alex Reinert provides an excellent explanation of the issues and problems.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000746386004

Who Gave ICE Permission to Trample the Constitution?

Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 01/24/2026 · 50m

Apple Podcasts

@DrALJONES
"Thank you for your service" assumed a little too much perhaps?

#USMilitary #QualifiedImmunity #Blowback #Australia #WarCrimes

@Pinchy63 Cops like that are a danger to the public. We need to remove #QualifiedImmunity & get rid of police unions. Their unions fight to get criminal cops off the hook for crimes against humanity.

Everything we know about the Minneapolis tragedy, and the unresolved question of whether the use of deadly force was really necessary in light of all the known circumstances (court precedent states probably not), and whether the courts will deny qualified immunity.

https://reason.com/2026/01/09/video-of-the-minneapolis-ice-shooting-does-not-resolve-the-issue-of-whether-it-was-legally-justified/

#DHS #excessiveForce #FourthAmendment #ICE #Minneapolis #policeAbuse #qualifiedImmunity #selfDefense #TrumpAdministration

Video of Minneapolis ICE shooting leaves legal justification unresolved

The crucial question is whether the agent reasonably believed the driver he killed posed a threat, even if she was not actually trying to run him over.

Reason.com

Reps E Swalwell & D Goldman⚡are introducing a new bill to strip #ICE officers of #QualifiedImmunity, making lawsuits/prosecutions easier *say agent who killed #ReneeGood should be prosecuted in MN.

As the🚨MPLS killing gets darker for Trump, the Congressmen talk about their plan to place chks on ICE—&: Trumpworld’s broader plunge into #violence & #lawlessness.
Rs laud #DHS' goons, Trump's IMM agenda: #detention facs enrich donors/Rs...
Good pushback⚡
#Murder #Nazis #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/205109/transcript-can-trump-thugs-reined-in-dems-idea

Transcript: Can Trump’s Thugs Be Reined In? These Dems Have an Idea.

As the Minneapolis killing gets darker for Trump, Representatives Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman talk about their plan to place checks on ICE—and about Trumpworld’s broader plunge into violence and lawlessness.

The New Republic

The murderer of #ReneeGood will never face justice.

Never.

This is the reality of America under a wannabe Mussolini.

The loony right will scream #qualifiedimmunity”. They’re wrong, but that’s not the biggest problem.

The real—and terrifying, and infuriating—obstacle is that the DoJ is turning a blind eye to fascist violence on our streets as a matter of policy.

What Red Don apocryphally said about getting away with murder in the middle of Fifth Ave now extends to the entire Federal government. Every ICE thug. Every corrupt executive branch ass-licker. And by extension, every billionaire.

One day this country might return to cherishing and protecting the #ruleoflaw. But today isn’t that day.

#Amerika #impeach47 #resist #donotcomply #immigration #lawenforcement #democracy