ICE, Prosecution and Absolute Immunity
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Six days after 37-year-old Minneapolis mom and wife Renee Good’s shooting death by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Massachusetts congressional lawmakers Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Tuesday reintroduced legislation first filed in 2020 that would end qualified immunity for federal law enforcement officers.
Galette and Colt force the Court to confront a basic question about modern federalism: whether constitutional immunity doctrines should evolve alongside the governmental forms they regulate, or whether they should remain tethered to an earlier conception of state action that predates the rise of the public corporation.