Meanwhile, the Supreme Court sided Tuesday with police who use deadly force, writing in a 7-2 decision that an Arizona police officer could not be sued after he shot a woman to death in her own front yard. The majority ruled the officer was entitled to “qualified immunity”—the doctrine that police are immune from lawsuits charging excessive force. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing that the majority’s decision “tells officers that they can shoot first and think later, and it tells the public that palpably unreasonable conduct will go unpunished.”