Tuesday, February 4, 2025

For Monday

Tuesday audio. Bivens Reax Papers due next Tuesday.

We continue with Immunity, starting with Legislative Immunity (Part A) on Monday and continuing to Judicial Process Immunity (Part B) for Tuesday. For each, consider how the answer to the key questions--who is immune, for what functions are they immune, and from what are they immune.

And for an additional Puzzle and to show why this is always in the news: This lawsuit against two members of Congress for voting for a bill to send money to Israel despite Israel committing what they allege to be human rights violations. What do you make of the argument by plaintiffs' lawyers that" immunity does not extend to a legislator who votes in favor of legislation when they know, or should have known, that the legislation is unlawful?