“I got a plan,” Warren says. Says she wants to change the pay structure for hospitals. If they bring down maternal mortality rates, they get a bonus. If not, they get money taken away from them. https://twitter.com/chueyburns/status/1121151274127253504
One of the better responses to the Mueller Report I've seen, by someone with pretty relevant credentials on the matter:
In an op-ed, Hillary Clinton calls for Congress to be "deliberate, fair and fearless" in response to Russia's attack on the U.S. election and President Trump's possible violation of the law.
WATCH: http://wapo.st/2XBBirO
Authorities say 31 people hospitalized following anhydrous ammonia leak in north Chicago suburb. #Illinois https://twitter.com/lakecoilsheriff/status/1121405283773878272
The 5th Circuit ruled yesterday that a police officer injured during protests in Baton Rouge after Alton Sterling was killed can pursue a negligence claim against organizer @deray: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5977762/4-24-19-5th-Circuit-Doe-v-McKesson.pdf
> In 2008, police seized two small alligators during a raid on a favela in western Rio de Janeiro, claiming local gangsters had fed their enemies to the animals. However, the father of one of the accused gangsters rejected those accusations, alleging his son’s gang had once tried to do so – but the alligator had refused to eat the corpse.
1. Just how many enemies do you have? Is this like a community disposal? 2. Love to deny the charges by saying you allowed your son to do the thing
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law that shields government officials from being sued for discretionary actions performed within their official capacity, unless their actions violated "clearly established" federal law or constitutional rights. Qualified immunity thus protects officials who "make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions," but does not protect "the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law".
== History and background ==
=== Bivens and 42 USC § 1983 lawsuits ===
Qualified immunity frequently arises in civil rights...
something can be obvious but not "clearly established"
relatedly, I should find the podcast charles star is on because I miss mic dicta and need a podcast that explains the law to me in my life again
There was some completely absurd case they talked about where like, immigration forged a voluntary deportation document on someone and everyone just kind of went along with it
and then eventually his lawyer pointed out like "this says Department of Homeland Security and is dated 2000, this is clearly a forgery because that department did not exist"
that I think ended up not being qualified immunity because actually breaking the law is pretty clearly established
@HalfEmpty You can't sue an individual police officer for performing their job (well, you can, but the suit will be thrown out pretty quickly), but you can sue the department, although that's generally not a good idea for most claims.
> The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada says it will now take the matter to Federal Court to seek an order to force the company to change its privacy practices.
NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too
NEW: Concord Management, one of the defendants in Mueller's Russian troll farm case, is asking the judge to order the govt to say why it shouldn't be found in contempt for the info it released related to the case in Mueller's report https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5978065/4-25-19-Concord-Motion-for-Show-Cause-Order.pdf
The US reportedly agreed to pay a $2 million "bill" for the care of Otto Warmbier, who was returned to the US in a coma and later died. Incredible reporting: https://wapo.st/2UW15yb
Wow, @iduncan reporting Pugh's *attorney's* office is being raided by FBI. Raiding an attorney's office is not easily done. Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White is one of the biggest firms in town
Matt here is responsible for such films as "the teachers strikes will cause children staying home to be abused", "if I can't do medicaid work requirements then I'll deexpand it anyway, so either way the complaintants in this case will lose their healthcare anyway",
My understanding is that, in having decided to run for President, Biden last night went "Welp guess I better half-ass an apology to Anita Hill first" and then…did…that, so it went about as well as one would expect
(it was not apparently just last night but still)
Existential Mick Mulvaney: "Have I disobeyed the president? Or have I just done my job?" Amazing get by @elainaplott and @PeterAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/mick-mulvaney-white-house-2020-and-mueller/588022/
The best part was that after you said something I searched for it and forgot that I can search deleted messages because I'm a mod so I was just silently wondering why y'all couldn't find it
We were talking the other day about stuff libraries do - my local library is turning a decorative garden into a vegetable garden where they will grow food that can be shared and use the space for lots of education around food production and community and such: wherecommunityconnects.wordpress.com/2019/04/25/…
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I thought that was a very neat thing, and a good reminder that there is so much more to libraries than books
I regret to inform you that Jack, after being Jack, continued to be Jack
NEW: Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday and stood by the company’s decision to permit a tweet from President Trump that later resulted in a flood of death threats targeting the congresswoman. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/25/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-called-rep-ilhan-omar-after-trumps-tweet-sparked-flood-death-threats/
BREAKING: A federal court in Texas just blocked the state's law suppressing boycotts of Israel, ruling that the law violates the First Amendment.
This is now the third federal court to block an anti-BDS law as unconstitutional. We won't stop defending the right to boycott.