Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
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Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#2It’s unfortunate that in the current political climate this legislation will likely go nowhere. It would be better to see leadership introduce this.
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#3Small typo in the title: it's the "Ending Qualified Immunity Act", not the "End Qualified Immunity Act".
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#4It’s unfortunate that in the current political climate this legislation will likely go nowhere. It would be better to see leadership introduce this.
Leadership isn't the source for all bills that are passed, though. Maybe as a 3rd party member, the bill would garner bipartisan support?
I do agree with you that the leadership should be offering some sort of legislative solutions. All we have seen so far is deflection.
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#5@dang the article does nothing but link to the tweet, I think it would be more useful to link to the tweet instead: https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648?s...
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#6It’s unfortunate that in the current political climate this legislation will likely go nowhere. It would be better to see leadership introduce this.
Leadership isn't the source for all bills that are passed, though. Maybe as a 3rd party member, the bill would garner bipartisan support? I do agree with you that the leadership should be offering some sort of legislative solutions. All we have seen so far is deflection.
My conspiracy theory is that something else is brewing on the international level that is bigger than these riots. There's been reports of actions by various international adversary militaries. Everyone is extremely busy.
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#7It’s unfortunate that in the current political climate this legislation will likely go nowhere. It would be better to see leadership introduce this.
Leadership isn't the source for all bills that are passed, though. Maybe as a 3rd party member, the bill would garner bipartisan support? I do agree with you that the leadership should be offering some sort of legislative solutions. All we have seen so far is deflection.
They are not the source, per se, but they are the deciding entity as to what moves in the process. Legislation cannot move without leadership, which includes committee chairs, majority leader, floor leader, whip, etc. Under a very technical way a discharge petition could be brought to force it out of committee, but ..that's extremely rare[0].
[0.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition#Uses_since_...
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#8@dang the article does nothing but link to the tweet, I think it would be more useful to link to the tweet instead: https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648?s...
Some context (the law; its history) would be useful, too.
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leadership isn't the source for all bills that are passed, though. Maybe as a 3rd party member, the bill would garner bipartisan support? I do agree with you that the leadership should be offering some sort of legislative solutions. All we have seen so far is deflection.
My conspiracy theory is that something else is brewing on the international level that is bigger than these riots. There's been reports of actions by various international adversary militaries. Everyone is extremely busy.
Could you be more specific? Which adversaries? What are they doing? What do you expect them to do next? And how do you think that relates to the riots, or to this bill?
Re: Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
#10It’s unfortunate that in the current political climate this legislation will likely go nowhere. It would be better to see leadership introduce this.
I agree. This will go nowhere, because established interests don't want to end qualified immunity for cops. I have mentioned in other comments [0] how police do not serve "the public," but, rather, property interests. Until that changes, we won't see any movement in this area. The incentives simply do not align.
Edit: added citation to one of my previous comments.
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