Damon Root: SCOTUS Appears Ready to Rule for Police in Deadly Car Chase

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on
Tuesday in a case testing the reach of qualified immunity, a legal
doctrine designed to shield government officials from civil
lawsuits “insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly
established statutory or constitutional rights of which a
reasonable person would have known.” By the time the proceedings
came to a close, observes Senior Editor Damon Root, it looked as if
a majority of the justices were prepared to vote in favor of the
West Memphis police officers whose use of deadly force to end a
high-speed car chase lay at the heart of the case.

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