The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies Huq Aziz Z.
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies Huq Aziz Z. An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while…
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The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies Huq Aziz Z.
An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation.Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police officers should no longer be protected by the doctrine of "qualified immunity" when they shoot or brutalize an innocent civilian. But aren't courts supposed to be protectors of individual rights? "Qualified immunity" is but one of several judicial inventions that shields state violence and thwarts the vindication of our rights.
As Aziz Huq shows in The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, history reveals a much more tangled relationship between the Constitution's system of independent courts and the protection of constitutional rights.While doctrines such as