The 96-Year-Old Brooklyn Judge Standing Up to the Supreme Court

A 96-year-old federal judge in Brooklyn had a “Hey, kids, get off my lawn” moment this week. The kids in question: the United States Supreme Court. The (metaphorical) lawn: the public’s power to hold the police accountable for misconduct and abuse. In a spirited decision issued Monday, the judge, Jack B. Weinstein, argued that the justices had gone too far in a pair of recent rulings expanding qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that protects law-enforcement officers from being sued for actions they perform on the job. Judge Weinstein complained that the broadened doctrine now protects “all but the plainly incompetent.”

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