The U.S. Supreme Court created the rule in 1982, after previously setting a “good faith” standard in 1967. Since this move of the goalposts, government officials have used qualified immunity to escape accountability for torture, theft and retaliation, along with hundreds of other abuses.
— Read on thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4142139-they-held-him-525-days-past-his-release-now-hell-fight-back-if-the-courts-will-let-him/