"Removal of Qualified Immunity" Bill (Judicial, Congressional, & Law Enforcement)

Aaron Toman will introduce a bill to remove "Qualified Immunity" from all public sector employees, including but not limited to: Judiciary, Congressional, and Law Enforcement personnel. 

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You may be asking, "What is Qualified Immunity?" and simply stated: it's a legal doctrine that protects government officials from lawsuits who violate the rights of the people. Some may say that Qualified Immunity doesn't prevent lawsuits against statutory or constitutional rights, but in practice, it basically does prevent ALL lawsuits against government employees.

Qualified Immunity was not a law passed by the people or their representatives, but a doctrine decided upon and passed by the Judiciary. A doctrine decided by the Judiciary that also happens to protect the Judiciary itself. There was a clear conflict of interest that the judiciary should have seen and prevented them from making the doctrine in the first place. Luckily for the American people, we have a system of checks and balances that allow the people to correct such a clearly biased decision through their congressional representatives. Aaron Toman will introduce a bill that removes Qualified Immunity not only from Law Enforcement where it is most often called for, but removed from ALL government officials, including, but not limited to: state and federal judges, state and federal congressional members, governors, county and city council members, clerks, federal agents, and anyone else who earns income from the government. If you are paid by the government, you work for the people and you must be held accountable for breaking the law or violating the constitution, the same standard that is held for everyone else that earns their income from the private sector. 

The most important group to lose their Qualified Immunity status is the Judiciary. The Judiciary should be an arena with an impartial arbitrator that brings forth justice regardless of who enters the arena. But what if the arbitrator isn't impartial like they have a duty to be? If every single judge can claim Qualified Immunity, then they can continue a chain of biased judgements where the judges can protect each other and justice is never found by the people. If no judge can claim Qualified Immunity, then the biased decisions stop with the first judge and justice can be found, since the judge who has to rule on the first judge's biases can find themselves in a lawsuit as well, if they also make a biased judgement. With a Judicial system that can be trusted by the people as a location to find justice, most problems with other government officials and offices will be able to be solved through the courts. Until we have trustworthy courts, all government officials know they are basically immune from the law and the people will continue to be hurt by that same government.