NO ONE should be immune from accountability for their actions. Prosecutors have the power to utterly ruin someone’s life - and, as the saying goes:
“With great power, comes great responsibility.”
Well, where’s the responsibility for the prosecutors? Right now, it doesn’t exist...and, human nature being what it is, many of them are taking full advantage of that immunity by doing outrageous things to completely innocent people, just to bolster their conviction rates or to get a particular person.
The very idea of immunity like this is anathema to our system of laws and our moral system. It is one thing to say that our 535 Representatives and Senators are immune from libel suits for what they say on the floor of Congress, but immunity for prosecutors who number in the tens of thousands nationwide for ANYTHING (not just speech, but anything that they do as prosecutors) is absurd, and a huge problem. I absolutely believe that this immunity needs to be rescinded - by act of Congress, if need be. Qualified immunity - that I’m fine with, but NOT absolute immunity.
Exactly. But the whole point of acquiring power, on the Left, is to *avoid* responsibility.
The Left *never* accept accountability for *anything*. The entire schtik of the Left is to shift responsibility to someone or something else.
Individuals are *never* to be held responsible for actions, unless such responsibility can be used as a lever to remove enemies from power, to gain power for the Left.
Yeah your right, prosecutors should be afraid every time they file a Criminal case that the defendant will sue them. And based on our litigious society they will be sued every single time for all things real and imaginary. As a result prosecutors will let the guilty go free rather than prosecute and subject themselves to the slot machine justice of civil courts. In fact who would want the job if every dirtbag can sue you for money damages just for doing your job? I wouldn’t and I prosecuted criminals for many years.
Your ideas are counter productive. The USSC granted absolute immunity to make sure prosecutors are not intimidated from doing their duty by being concerned about civil suits. The few bad prosecutors can be dealt with without destroying the ability to prosecute criminals all across the nation.