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What’s exactly said and what are the practical impacts are two completely different things.

It will take many, many cases to elaborate on what defines an official act and what exactly decides immunity, and in the process we could see a lot of potential what-I’d-say is overreach.

It is far too early to declare that there will be zero side effects from this — as with literally any Supreme Court ruling.

We’ve already seen what qualified immunity gets us, and I’d bet many people didn’t expect it to go that way.



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