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Also Harlow V Fitzgerald. That case laid the groundwork for all of this illegally, and no one involved could be charged with anything, as the illegal amendment of section 1981 of the federal code happened in 1884. At that time a single unnamed secretary took it upon themselves to amend a law, by removing a crucial 16 word clause, while copying the 1881 Congressional Record into the Federal Register. Because of that Qualified Immunity became a thing in 1982.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html