Donny’s Goon Platoon has made of habit of killing American citizens and now it appears that they have absolute immunity for their actions.
Under normal circumstances they do not….but nothing about Donny’s tearing up our rights is nothing normal.
But there we are…..
Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.
Speaking at the White House, Vance appeared to try to stymie any efforts by Minnesota prosecutors to pursue a criminal case against the agent.
“The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action – that’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job,” Vance said, echoing others in the Trump administration. “I’ve never seen anything like that. It would get tossed out by a judge.”
That assessment was quickly met with skepticism by experts who said the vice president was overstating the law around immunity for federal officials. Vance’s comments come amid nationwide protests of ICE officials and criticism of the agency’s efforts to carry out a historic deportation campaign with little to no oversight.
“The idea that a federal agent has absolute immunity for crimes they commit on the job is absolutely ridiculous,” said Michael J.Z. Mannheimer, a constitutional law expert at Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
Mannheimer said that more than 120 years of case law on the issue of so-called supremacy clause immunity has shown that federal officials can be criminally pursued by state prosecutors for conduct taken in the course of their official duties but that it’s up to courts to ultimately determine whether they can be shielded from the charges.
“Officers are not entitled to absolute immunity as a matter of law,” said Timothy Sini, a former federal prosecutor in New York.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-immunity-jd-vance-minneapolis
Sadly under the leadership of Donny, the Goon Platoon, does have immunity even as it flies in the face of the law….
The modern version of the Brown Shirts are set to expand their numbers so these thugs can harass citizens in the homes and further expand their ability to function without regard to the law.
These ‘officers’ are criminals more so than the people that pretend to be hunting and as such need their legs cut off…..
This is a disgusting and pathetic path that Little Donny has decided to travel and I hope it bites his left cheek off.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The courts have developed something called “Qualified Immunity” when it comes to prosecuting and/or suing local, state and federal law enforcement personnel either criminally or civilly. The courts have decided that such officers are immune from prosecution or civil suit unless the officer in question violates basic legal and/or constitutional situation that a reasonable person should have known was unlawful.
QI is fraught with controversy because the courts have used the concept to protect police officers in situations where the officer in question blatantly violated the law or someone’s civil rights. QI does not seem to be codified anywhere in law or in the constitution and is something the court system conjured up out of thin air to protect police from frivolous lawsuits. What does or does not qualify as QI seems to depend entirely on how an individual court and judge interprets the notion.
There is some logic behind the idea. If a police officer could be sued by anyone for anything, they would be unable to function at all. They have to be protected from abusive lawsuits and malicious prosecutions that serve no purpose except to try to prevent the officer from doing their job. But at the same time the officer also needs to be held accountable for their actions if they act in such a way that is criminal.
The problem is that since QI isn’t really defined specifically in the law so it is up to individual courts to decide if it should be applied in a specific situation. The whole concept has been called into question recently in certain courts because it has been used to try to shield officers who acted imm ways that a reasonable person would interpret as being abusive or even criminal.
THanx for the head’s up on this….it is another convoluted law….chuq
To me, these ICE folk have the mentality of the Cave Man. Literally.
That is being polite Nan….LOL chuq