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RT @pecunium: Which also reduces the precedents (see below about how SCOTUS has gutted what precedent means). https://t.co/6QMiQwKfHb
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RT @LAKane: Congrats to @Reuters on winning the @SidneyHillman Foundation's Sidney award for exposing how #SCOTUS protects rogu… https://t.co/aYKo22RbQI
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RT @Bob_Ortega: ICYMI, this timely @Reuters investigation shows how the Supreme Court has honed the doctrine of qualified immunity… https://t.co/XdOnzYeXAo
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How do you solve a problem like police unions? https://t.co/yurKVIshbc
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RT @KatrinaNation: This month’s Sidney winners used groundbreaking data analysis to prove that the Supreme Court has quietly made it a… https://t.co/jSeVq5UHhU
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Guess what? COPS was abolished! https://t.co/5eJTxPDhuH
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High-profile police brutality cases are usually settled out of court. Which is good for the victims, but it's also… https://t.co/RQW4yZ7nu6
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Forcing the lower courts to interpret precedent so narrowly means that the same egregiously bad behaviors can go un… https://t.co/Jzn3CpaYVI
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It's a big problem that courts are setting fewer precedents, thanks to the 2009 Supreme Court decision, because whe… https://t.co/SRBScwcKXE
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Since different cases are...different, a judge can almost always find reasons why the case in question doesn't matc… https://t.co/LTwNbuEN4c
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In one case, a judge reluctantly granted qualified immunity to a cop who the judge agreed had used excessive force-… https://t.co/eHpxbjQQks
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The Supreme Court says the lower courts have to interpret precedents very narrowly. The cases have to match in seemingly irrelevant details.
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This small change had a huge impact because it meant that courts would *set fewer precedents* about what constitutes excessive force.
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The lower courts used to have to decide both whether the officer used excessive force and whether there was a speci… https://t.co/VJ7iAsIwsg
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Basically, a cop can’t be sued unless they used excessive force in violation of the 4th Amendment AND a prior lawsu… https://t.co/C9c4wJK4V9
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Since 2009, the Supreme Court has quietly rewritten the rules for qualified immunity. QI is supposed to protect pub… https://t.co/zdVLgyjRU2
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This month's Sidney winners exposed an outrageous loophole that makes it almost impossible to sue the police for ex… https://t.co/nWdyTFzFrh
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Congratulations to @andrew_chung_, @lawrencehurley, @andreajanuta, @jackie_botts, and Guillermo Garcia of @Reuters… https://t.co/uB3pR0NYvP
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This month's Sidney winners documented an outrageous loophole that makes it almost impossible to sue for police bru… https://t.co/j8YmCvaTHs