The SCOTUS Chronicles

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The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a judge’s limits on Los Angeles-area immigration stops based on a person speaking Spanish or working in a certain profession.

The Trump administration urged the high court for the emergency intervention, calling the order a “straitjacket” on enforcement efforts in an epicenter of the president’s immigration crackdown.

The ruling appeared to fall along the court’s 6-3 ideological lines, though the justices are not required to publicly disclose their votes in emergency orders. The one-paragraph order contained no explanation, as is typical.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s second appointee to the court, penned a solo opinion indicating the plaintiffs likely have no legal right to sue and the administration is likely to succeed in defeating the lawsuit, regardless.

“To conclude otherwise, this Court would likely have to overrule or significantly narrow two separate lines of precedents,” Kavanaugh wrote in the 10-page concurring opinion.

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U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong imposed the limits in July after a group of individuals stopped by ICE and private organizations sued over what they decried as unconstitutional “roving patrols” in the Los Angeles area.

Frimpong, an appointee of former President Biden, agreed they had shown the administration was likely violating the Fourth Amendment by stopping people without reasonable suspicion.

Her order prevented immigration authorities from relying on four factors to conduct immigration stops and arrests: someone’s race, use of Spanish, type of work or physical presence at a location where migrants in the country unlawfully are known to gather.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...s-angeles/

So, precedent doesn't matter when it comes to stripping women of the right to bodily autonomy, but is very important when permitting the government to profile and harass non-English-speaking people, or poor folk who push a broom or pick your vegetables for a living.

This court is directly complicit in the dismantling of American democracy.