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U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves Calls Out the Racism of the Supreme Court's Qualified Immunity doctrines

newrepublic.com A Federal Judge Just Called Out the Supreme Court

Carlton Reeves did not pull any punches in criticizing qualified immunity—and demanding that the justices finally do something about it.

A Federal Judge Just Called Out the Supreme Court

Reeves wrote that it was “difficult to see qualified immunity’s creation as anything other than a backlash to the civil rights movement,” given the historical context. “The justices took a law meant to protect freed people exercising their federal rights in Southern states after the Civil War, then flipped its meaning,” he noted. “In creating qualified immunity, the high court protected the Southern officials still violating those federal rights 100 years after the war ended. Southern trees bear strange fruit, indeed.”

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