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Crimes have victims, and victims call the police to investigate and hopefully catch the perpetrator. When crimes have no real victims, however, policing fundamentally changes.

"On qualified immunity, I was just looking at a document from The Cato Institute," says Sen. Cory Booker on MSNBC. "If officers know they can do things that are so far against our community's standards, but know they won't face a criminal or civil penalties, there will be no change." Qualified immunity is an unqualified injustice. #AbolishQI LEARN MORE: www.cato.org/qualified-immunity Follow Unlawful Shield, our project to end qualified immunity, for more news and updates.

By protecting police officers from liability, even when they violate people’s constitutional rights, qualified immunity has become the cornerstone of our near‐zero accountability policy for law enforcement. #AbolishQI

Long before COVID-19 forced almost all children to receive education at home, homeschooling—a parental decision to educate their children at home—was growing. For advocates, its purpose and value is to open space for diversity, enabling families to provide education different from what any school offers. Critics fear that it isolates children from the myriad people and ideas in society and can enable child abuse to go unchecked. These positions have recently come into high‐​profile conflict and seem irreconcilable. Are they?

We at Cato are proud of the decades worth of principled, empirically oriented research on police misconduct and how best to bring accountability to the public use of force that our organization has done and continues to do.

The Justices have a critical opportunity now to take the first steps toward correcting the legal and moral perversities of qualified immunity. If they do so, perhaps it will effect some small measure of redemption for the tragic death of George Floyd, and so many like him. If not, it is difficult to overstate how severe our crisis of confidence in law enforcement will become.

One of the most important tools we have for holding police and other public officials accountable is the ability to sue them when they violate our rights. But the Supreme Court has undermined this vital accountability mechanism with a legal fiction called “qualified immunity.”

SpaceX has officially set off an international space race.

Qualified immunity was invented by the Supreme Court out of whole cloth and has no basis statutory text, legislative intent, or sound public policy. #AbolishQI.

A bilateral agreement between Canada and the United States would allow citizens of both countries to work in either country with minimal limitations.