A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn't try years ago to deflect a defamation lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault with a presidential immunity claim.

The two weeks that kids have been back in the classroom was just about all the time doctors needed to see that the years of pandemic masking up and antibacterial soap have affected children’s immune systems.

Police officials lamented that House Bill 88 could remove that protection, called qualified immunity. Police officials were the main opponents of removing qualified immunity, a court-established protection intended to prevent government employees from frivolous litigation. Until the recently renewed nationwide criticism of American policing and its disproportionate harm against Black people, qualified immunity garnered little public attention. AdLast month, a conservative federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against two Texas police officers, citing qualified immunity. The hurdles have been labeled by qualified immunity critics as a Catch-22 and nearly impossible to overcome.