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The court rarely explains why it is not taking cases and it did not do so Monday, but Justice Clarence Thomas recorded his dissent in connection with the decision to pass up one case stemming from a 2014 incident involving a police dog's bite of a homeless man, Alexander Baxter. Nashville police caught Baxter in the process of carrying out a burglary. He claimed had already surrendered when the dog attacked.
"There likely is no basis for the objective inquiry into clearly established law that our modern cases prescribe," ThomasSome liberals have also been sharply critical of the doctrine, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who skewered it in a 2015 opinion. The doctrine not only benefits police but other government employees, like hospital workers, firefighters and paramedics. It has no direct application to criminal prosecutions for police misconduct such as unjustified shootings, which tend to be even harder to win than civil suits.
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Meanwhile, in the Supreme Court,.. a suspect can sue if a police dog is unleashed on them while lying down but not if a suspect is sitting down with their hands up… the absurdity of it all.
Thank God it didn't - they wouldn't have ruled the 'right' way. This issue is better left to state legislatures - at present.
Boo supreme court!
What reason did they cite
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless! Isaiah
SCOTUS is protecting the government from the people. It is ironic, at best. We need to stop looking at our politicians so closely, and start looking at our judges with keen eyes.
Abolish the pigs then and keep firing the chiefs until they all cancel their union contracts. No mercy! Law and Order for the pigs! 🤨
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