Rest in Peace, Ruth James Craven | September 19, 2020 Last night, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away due to complications from cancer. Justice Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, became well-known late in her career for authoring and joining in many poignant dissents. She was also a known skeptic of the qualified immunity doctrine. Justice Ginsburg joined the dissent in Kisela v. Hughes, a case where a police officer who shot a woman four times because she was holding a kitchen knife was granted qualified immunity. … Continue reading “Rest in Peace, Ruth”

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