Dan Epps

And there's other doctrines like this, right?

I love how judges have made up, and maybe you think this one is more justified, made up the rule of absolute judicial immunity.

Oh, yeah, that's real.

That's real.

Okay, judges can't be sued, prosecutorial immunity, presidential immunity, right?

That one's more made up.

That's more made up, yeah.

Okay, so this is a place where the court has kind of found rules that at least none of these are textual.

None of them are textual.

And the justices who are doing that, you know, are ones that, you know, criticize the court and criticize other justices for doing things that they perceive are made up in other contexts.

And yet he's joining, or at least not dissenting from these opinions, enforcing qualified immunity.

Yes.

So what's going on there?

I don't know.

We should ask him.

Yeah, I mean, these cases, you know, I've said this before, but these cases frustrate me because of all the situations where it makes sense for the court to expend limited resources to come in and correct some injustice.

These ones don't strike me as fitting in that category because, yes, these are cases where a police officer is being sued for money.

But basically 100% of the time, the city, the county is going to pay the damages award.

So there's not really a little guy who's being smushed the way there is in a habeas case where there's someone who is wrongfully in prison and wants to get out.

There's lots of bad decisions that implicate taxpayers, I would say.