A SCOTUS Opening

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(10-22-2020, 06:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Qualified immunity is very simple.  Unless you stray far from department policy you cannot be sued personally for any action you take while on the job.  Without this it would absolutely impossible to be an LEO, you'd be sued every day by every person you arrest.  You'd drown in nuisance lawsuits.  So there doesn't need to be an example of it, it is all encompassing with the exception I already noted.

It's deeper than that.  I've read and heard of too many examples to say it is "very simple".

But even if a "nuisance" lawsuit gets through the taxpayers pay for it so there's always that.