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| Today we are leading the newsletter with a column on qualified immunity reform. We also have a lot of wonderful weekend content to share with you. Happy reading! |
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| By John M. Aughenbaugh |
| In the wake of repeated police violations of individual civil rights and resulting large-scale protests in the summer of 2020, it has been widely suggested that the time is ripe to change, reduce or otherwise rid American law of the qualified immunity doctrine. |
| The doctrine states that government officials should be immune from civil rights lawsuits if their behavior complies with clearly established law. Such immunity has been criticized for shielding law enforcement officers from bearing responsibility for their actions. Scholars in numerous disciplines have called into question the doctrine's origins and efficacy. |
| We don't often see U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor agree on jurisprudence, yet both have suggested that the court needs to revisit its thinking on qualified immunity. |
Today's Editorial Cartoon |
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| By Larry Strauss |
| Some 19 months ago, as COVID-19 was killing its first Americans and threatening the capacity of our medical system, school districts began closing campuses. I have yet to encounter any educators who believe that even our best, most innovative, efforts with distance learning did much more than lessen a catastrophe. |
| What will make it an even greater catastrophe is if we refuse to learn anything from the experiment. |
| I am, of course, just one teacher doing my thing in one school, but I have thought a lot about this — beginning in the weeks after everyone stopped meeting in person — and here are lessons I have learned that I hope others might also recognize. |
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| By Chris Marvin |
| I filled the gas tank of our rented 2002 Volkswagen Eurovan 17 times in 31 days from mid-July to mid-August. It was a green Weekender camper van with a Westfalia pop top. The kids slept upstairs. During that month, we drove more than 3,000 miles exploring seven national parks, from the Rockies to the Olympic Mountains. |
| The purpose of this adventure was to share the legacy of the national parks with my children. As a combat-wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan, there aren't many tangible items I can show my daughters to demonstrate what I fought for overseas. Outside of an American flag or a voting booth, there are few physical manifestations of patriotism, freedom or democracy. Yet, in the national parks we can see, smell, hear and touch the very national treasures I fought to protect. |
| I loved traveling by camper van but felt guilty about the environmental impacts the emissions from our van were making. My feelings were compounded by the real-time climate impacts we witnessed throughout our trip. |
| So, while the planned theme for our trip was legacy, the surprise theme was climate change. |
| Some stories you might've missed |
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Columns on qualified immunity |
| We are doing a series examining the issue of qualified immunity. For more on the series read here. |
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| This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
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