Continuing our series on legal immunity, we're looking at federal and state immunity today. You can check out our posts on qualified immunity, absolute immunity, and sovereign immunity at those links. As you know, along with power distributed between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches in the U.S., it is also distributed between federal, state, [...]
What is sovereign immunity? Recently, we discussed both absolute immunity and qualified immunity. Each of these are specific forms of "sovereign immunity." In today's blog, we'll flesh out what this legal doctrine means, and its relevant to you. First, according to the Legal Information Institute, sovereign immunity means that "the government cannot be sued without [...]
As often happens before, during, and after presidential campaigns, the topic of absolute immunity inevitably gets brought up. What does this term mean? Why is it relevant? What does it have to do with the president? Should people support it or oppose it? We'll answer all these questions and more as we answer "What is [...]
In the past month, Libertarian U.S. Representative from Michigan, Justin Amash, has proposed a bill to Congress that would end qualified immunity for government officials. With everything going on in the United States over the past few months, discussions on civil rights have dominated the public square. This proposal is no exception. In order to [...]