L4GG joined with the Constitutional Accountability Center and 87 other civil rights and advocacy organizations to calling on the Senate to end qualified immunity.
Congress gave the people the right to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equal justice under the law, by allowing them to sue officials who violate their rights while acting under the color of state law. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Through the doctrine of qualified immunity, judicial activists on the Supreme Court effectively took that right away, disproportionately harming the marginalized communities that the Fourteenth Amendment and § 1983 were supposed to protect.
It's time for Congress to step up and return the right of the people to sue to protect their rights. Call your Senators and tell them to "end qualified immunity to ensure meaningful accountability measures in the Senate version of the Justice in Policing Act of 2021.”