Qualified immunity doesn't protect officers from legal trouble. It just makes it so a judge has to give the go ahead on civil lawsuits only. It does not apply to anything else. However judges and just about any other political power has ABSOLUTE immunity and cannot be sued civilly period.
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Qualified immunity doesn't protect officers from legal trouble. It just makes it so a judge has to give the go ahead on civil lawsuits only. It does not apply to anything else. However judges and just about any other political power has ABSOLUTE immunity and cannot be sued civilly period.