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Steve Cohen: “It's nothing that appears in the Civil Rights Act and it's nothing that appears in the Constitution.”

On the recordMarch 30, 2022
It's nothing that appears in the Civil Rights Act and it's nothing that appears in the Constitution.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen critiques the origins of qualified immunity as lacking constitutional basis.

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