Supreme Court Shrugs Off Opportunity To Save The First Amendment From The Fifth Circuit’s Antipathy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/supreme-court-shrugs-off-opportunity-to-save-the-first-amendment-from-the-fifth-circuits-antipathy/

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

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/

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/

“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

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

#USMilitary #QualifiedImmunity #Blowback #Australia #WarCrimes

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