{"id":108879,"date":"2025-02-21T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/states-cant-immunize-themselves-from-civil-rights-suits-supreme-court-says\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:39:27","slug":"states-cant-immunize-themselves-from-civil-rights-suits-supreme-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/states-cant-immunize-themselves-from-civil-rights-suits-supreme-court-says\/","title":{"rendered":"States Can’t ‘Immunize’ Themselves from Civil Rights Suits, Supreme Court Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“As the Court has explained, States possess ‘no authority to override’ Congress’s ‘decision to subject state’ officials ‘to liability for violations of federal rights,'” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.<\/p>\n

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“As the Court has explained, States possess ‘no authority to override’ Congress’s ‘decision to subject state’ officials ‘to liability for violations of federal rights,'” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.<\/p>\n

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“As the Court has explained, States possess ‘no authority to override’ Congress’s ‘decision to subject state’ officials ‘to liability for violations of federal rights,’” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “As the Court has explained, States possess ‘no authority to override’ Congress’s ‘decision to subject state’ officials ‘to liability for violations of federal rights,’” Justice Brett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/legal-news-vrq7eZ.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}