qualified immunity

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Angie Craig (MN) has attempted to hide her anti-law enforcement history by recently reversing her stance on eliminating qualified immunity for police officers before a tough reelection battle.

In the left’s ongoing war on the police, their plan to strip cops of qualified immunity is among the most preposterous. The sole objective is to jam up cops and make them more passive.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said that a framework on police reform has been agreed to, and while the language is still being written, “we know that we are not

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats on Tuesday during an event in Owensboro, Kentucky, calling their far-left idea of defunding the police “one of the dumbest ideas.”

Appearing on Steve Malzberg’s weekly Sunday commentary show Eat the Press, Manhattan Institute conservative scholar and New York Times bestselling author Heather Mac Donald scolded the media for conveying a false narrative of rampant racist policing.

As widespread efforts from the far-left gained momentum to end qualified immunity over the last year, new documents show Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her staff lobbied against the movement.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said in his rebuttal to President Joe Biden on Wednesday night that Democrats too often want to focus on the issue rather than finding a solution.

The Connecticut Republican Party launched an ad Tuesday that targets a bill, passed by the Democrat-led legislature, that has posed dramatic changes in the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Matt Mowers, the Republican candidate for New Hampshire’s First Congressional District, called on Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) to denounce Democrat calls to commute the sentence of convicted “cop killer” Michael Addison during an interview with Breitbart News Tonight host Matthew Boyle.

The American Association for Justice, the trial lawyers’ trade association, donated to Rep. Chris Pappas’s (D-NH) campaign before Pappas supported an anti-police policy to remove law enforcement’s qualified immunity protection.

Matt Mowers, a former Donald Trump State Department staffer, chastised Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) on Monday after Pappas voted to remove police officers’ legal immunity, which Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) thought was too radical.

Urged on by Black Lives Matter and the ACLU, the Connecticut Senate assured final passage of a police accountability bill early Wednesday morning, 21-15, during a rushed special session.

New Hampshire first congressional district Republican candidate Matt Mowers slammed Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) on Tuesday after the New Hampshire Democrat called to eliminate police departments’ qualified immunity protection.

New York state Democrats are looking to require New York Police Department (NYPD) officers to have personal liability insurance rather than having the help of city attorneys for lawsuits filed against them. 

This entire anti-police jihad is based on lies, and except for Tucker Carlson, no one on our side has the courage or the ability to fight for the truth. It’s either appeasement, cowardly silence, or incoherence. 

Republicans should prioritize violent crime in large cities rather than “attacking the police,” said Ryan Girdusky, author of They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution, offering his comments on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Braun went head-to-head with Carlson in defense of that effort and over remarks that Braun made voice his support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Wednesday, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) warned of consequences if qualified immunity were ended for law enforcement during an appearance on the Fox Business Network.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that there is “definitely” a parallel between Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and qualified immunity, contending that big tech and law enforcement both need “transparency and accountability.”

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday his legislation to reform qualified immunity would create transparency and accountability for America’s law enforcement while protecting them from frivolous lawsuits.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a press conference on Thursday that, instead of working earnestly with Republicans, Democrats have “insisted on jamming through” their partisan police bill.

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday discussed qualified immunity for police officers, which many are saying should be looked at in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, both during interactions with police.

Qualified immunity for cops denies citizens the legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights, said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA).

The NFL Players Coalition has amassed 1,400 signatures from players, coaches, staff, and front office, current and retired, in support of a bill that would make end qualified immunity for police.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) threw her support behind a movement that would defund the New York Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the goal of which is to combat police brutality.

The Supreme Court set aside an appeals court decision involving the fatal border shooting of a Mexican national by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, sending the case back down for further proceedings on possible violations of constitutional rights and whether the agent is personally liable to pay money to the Mexican citizen’s family.

A Mexican family whose son was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the agent violated their son’s constitutional rights by using unnecessary deadly force. A preliminary issue is whether the Constitution applies to someone who is not a citizen of the U.S. and was standing on Mexican soil at the time of the shooting.

How a U.S. Border Patrol argent’s use of lethal force at the U.S-Mexican border implicates constitutional rights and foreign affairs dominated arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in Hernandez v. Mesa. The lawyer arguing that the agent should be held liable had a rough day in front of the justices.

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curium decision today reversing a 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit opinion holding that a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was not entitled to be granted qualified immunity. The officer had used deadly force to stop a driver in a high-speed car chase. Justice Sotomayor chastised the court for allowing a “shoot first, think later approach to policing.”

On Oct. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided the case of what the court called “self-described Christian evangelists preaching hate and denigration to a crowd of Muslims, some of whom responded with threats of violence.”