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[return to "Police act like laws don't apply to them because of Qualified Immunity"]
1. hedora+Y4[view] [source] 2020-05-31 22:49:18
>>lpolov+(OP)
Call your representatives. Demand qualified immunity (and civil forfeiture) be eliminated.
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2. PaulDa+b8[view] [source] 2020-05-31 23:10:41
>>hedora+Y4
It cannot be eliminated by legislation. It arises from a SCOTUS decision, and can only be undone by them (at least in the broadest sense).
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3. stonog+49[view] [source] 2020-05-31 23:16:46
>>PaulDa+b8
That's not how this works. Laws can absolutely be changed; in the case of a SCOTUS decision, that's what constitutional amendments are for.
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4. wlesie+Sb[view] [source] 2020-05-31 23:38:38
>>stonog+49
Only required if SCOTUS’s opinion is on a constitutional matter, like 1st amendment rights.

If SCOTUS writes an opinion on a law like DMCA and then the legislature repeals the DMCA, it doesn’t much matter how SCOTUS interprets it because it’s not a law anymore.

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