[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #781 Against Anti-Fascism

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 19:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 08-06-2020 om 19:25:00 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record. reageer retweet

Dat was nog voor de Corona-uitbraak. De lockdowns kwamen pas later.

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With the country awash in protests over the death of George Floyd, the U.S. Supreme Court is examining a modern-day legal doctrine created by judges that has shielded police and other government officials from lawsuits over their conduct.

The doctrine is called "qualified immunity." Developed in recent decades by the Supreme Court, the doctrine, as applied to police, initially asked two questions: First, did police use excessive force, and if they did, should they have known that their conduct was illegal because it violated a "clearly established" prior court ruling that barred such conduct.

The idea behind the doctrine was to protect police from frivolous lawsuits and allow some "breathing room" for police mistakes that involve split-second judgments that are made in tense and dangerous situations.

But in practice, because of a 2009 Supreme Court decision, lower courts have most often dismissed police brutality lawsuits on grounds that there is no prior court decision with nearly identical facts. Several recent studies, including one conducted by Reuters, have found that dozens of cases involving horrific facts, just as bad as the one involving Floyd, were thrown out of court on the grounds that there was no "clearly established" court precedent forbidding the conduct at issue.

That's why critics of the qualified immunity doctrine have called it a "Catch-22" that says to victims, in effect, "Heads the police win. Tails you lose."

At the U.S. Supreme Court, two justices — one on the right, the other on the left — have called for reexamining the qualified immunity doctrine.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, arguably the court's most liberal justice, has repeatedly dissented when her colleagues have excused police misconduct in police brutality cases. In one dissent, she said the court "displays an unflinching willingness" to reverse lower courts when they refuse to grant qualified immunity to police officers. In contrast, she said, the court "rarely intervenes" when lower courts wrongly grant qualified immunity to police officers. This "one-sided approach" transforms qualified immunity into "an absolute shield for law enforcement officers," she wrote.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's most conservative member, has also called for revisiting the doctrine of qualified immunity. He has written that the doctrine was simply invented by judges without any historical basis.

Similar unusual alliances have been formed by organizations that file briefs regularly at the court — from the conservative/libertarian Cato Institute and the Institute for Justice to the liberal ACLU and the NAACP.

The legal battle over qualified immunity may now have reached an inflection point in the aftermath of Floyd's death in Minneapolis.

There are currently eight qualified immunity cases now pending before the Supreme Court. The facts of the cases are varied. They range from the shooting of a 10-year-old boy when police pursued an unarmed suspect into a yard where children were playing, to the apparently needless destruction of a house with tear gas grenades when police were given the house keys to look for a suspect after the homeowner had told police the suspect was not there, to other cases involving deaths and profound injuries stemming from police misconduct.

It takes the votes of four of the nine justices to agree to hear a case. The question is whether there are four who think there is the possibility of a fifth vote for limiting or abolishing qualified immunity as it now exists.

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 18:28 schreef Zelva het volgende:

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Niet van de president dit keer. Daarom ook dat Like father, like son

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 19:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Hm de SC gaat wellicht nu ook de 'qualified immunity'-doctrine heroverwegen:

Supreme Court Weighs Qualified Immunity For Police Accused Of Misconduct
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pantomath__ twitterde op zondag 07-06-2020 om 22:24:42 I might get one more compliant from Germany, but still I will Tweet this. https://t.co/uLS9vhTF1l reageer retweet

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 21:03 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Filmpje in tweet.😎 voorbeeld van rage tweeten.

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pantomath__ twitterde op zondag 07-06-2020 om 22:24:42 I might get one more compliant from Germany, but still I will Tweet this. https://t.co/uLS9vhTF1l reageer retweet

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 19:47 schreef VoMy het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me sowieso niet waar aangezien je voor de hier gangbare versie van recessie twee kwartalen aan krimp nodig hebt.

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The NBER’s traditional definition emphasizes that a recession involves a significant decline in economic
activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months. In our modern
interpretation of this definition, the committee treats the three criteria—depth, diffusion, and duration—
as at least somewhat interchangeable. That is, while each criteria needs to be met individually to some
degree, extreme conditions revealed by one criterion may partially offset weaker indications from
another. For example, in the case of the February 2020 peak in economic activity, the committee
concluded that the drop in activity had been so great and so widely diffused throughout the economy
that the downturn should be classified as a recession even if it proved to be quite brief.

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 21:03 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Filmpje in tweet.😎 voorbeeld van rage tweeten.

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pantomath__ twitterde op zondag 07-06-2020 om 22:24:42 I might get one more compliant from Germany, but still I will Tweet this. https://t.co/uLS9vhTF1l reageer retweet

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 21:33 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Voor iemand die goed Duits verstaat is het lastig te volgen, de ondertitels in een andere niet-moedertaal die niet corresponderen met hetgeen gezegd wordt, hoe grappig de geschreven tekst ook is, het gehoor is sterker.

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 21:23 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:

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Tja deze meme is wel heel kazig ondertussen. Zijn er geen nieuwe films meer uitgekomen de laatste 15 jaar ofzo?

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 19:17 schreef Montov het volgende:
Zo 'gewonnen', zo geronnen. Misschien is het een blijvend sentiment, misschien keert het langzaam weer terug naar de oude situatie of misschien zijn we het volgende maand weer vergeten na een nieuwe schietpartij of de volgende TrumpTirade^TM.

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 22:00 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Boek van Bolton schijnt eind deze maand te verschijnen:

Bolton plans to publish book in June even if White House doesn't give approval

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Op dinsdag 9 juni 2020 00:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dit zou wel echt iets zijn wat ik niet zou hebben zien aankomen.


“MALIGNANTLY CRAZY” ABOUT BAD POLL NUMBERS, TRUMP IS THINKING OF REPLACING HIS SON-IN-LAW


Benieuwd.

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Op dinsdag 9 juni 2020 00:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dit is trouwens erg slap. Hij stemde voor afzetten, en dan niet het lef hebben te zeggen dat je niet op hem gaat stemmen.

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kasie twitterde op dinsdag 09-06-2020 om 00:05:27 ROMNEY: Will “stay quiet” on whether or not he’ll vote for Trump, he tells reporters reageer retweet

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TheRickWilson twitterde op maandag 08-06-2020 om 21:30:09 I've read enough memos from McLaughlin to know Donald Trump wrote it.

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Op maandag 8 juni 2020 22:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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politicoalex twitterde op maandag 08-06-2020 om 22:07:17 SCOOP: Trump to restart rallies within next 2 weeks

A decision that turning point since the coronavirus shut down traditional campaigning this spring.

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