Supreme Court blesses racial profiling because of course

The 6-3 programming now familiar to the Supreme Court of the United States has just thrown decades of law established so that the traveling bands of President Donald Trump masked agents masked in Los Angeles can engage in a little light racial profiling, like a treat, and can continue to collect people according to nothing more than Latino, speaking Spanish and work commune.

You know the exercise. A judge of the lower court wrote a detail, thoughtful, long opinion On how this practice was 100% racial profiling and ordered the government to stop doing it. The Trump administration ran to the Supreme Court to say that the world would collapse if they could not immediately profile the brown in Los Angeles, and the Supreme Court forced by stay the order of the lower court. This stay prevents the ordinance of the lower court from entering into force, so that federal agents can continue this racist and unconstitutional behavior.

These detentions and arrests are not based on the agent having a particular reason to believe that the specific person they hold is an undocumented immigrant. Instead, they argue that they can have any person who corresponds to their conception of an undocumented immigrant -with regard to low -income brown people, who work with subordinate and difficult jobs.

This is the opposite of what federal regulations say they are authorized to do. Immigration agents can only have someone for interrogation If they have “A reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulating facts, which the questioned person is or tries to be engaged in an offense against the United States or is an illegally foreigner in the United States[.]””

Stopping or detention of people without reason he violates Requirement of the fourth amendment Is this likely cause to search or grasp someone? This is certainly the case! If a police officer wants to stop someone on the street and search them, he must have a reasonable level of suspicion about this particular person, like believing that they are armed and about to commit a crime. The law enforcement agents must be able to justify the cessation of specific persons according to specific concerns rather than being able to stop whole groups of people according to the shared characteristics.

The Supreme Court even addressed it in the context of immigration about 50 years ago US c. Brignoon. There, the government said that the border patrol agents Could stop any car near the border if the driver seemed Mexican, as undocumented immigrants travel to vehicles led by Mexicans. The Supreme Court rejected this, saying that it would also increase legitimate traffic and have shown no particular suspicion that a particular vehicle transported undocumented immigrants.

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But this is essentially what the federal agents of Los Angeles do, and the conservatives love it, apparently. Not that you know it, because the stay was not signed and has no explanation to explain why the conservative majority thinks that it does not matter to stop people because they have the bad color of the skin. It’s just another Shadow file rule that Allows Trump to do what he wants.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor pulled out any punch, even refusing to engage in the false civility of the tradition of saying “I dissipate myself respectfully”. No, here it’s just “I’m dissipating”. Although this may seem like a cheesy, legalist and tiny thing to focus on, in the context of how judges communicate with each other by their opinions, it is Sotomayor who says that actions and reasoning – or their absence – of his colleagues are not worthy of respect.

And this is not the case. The conservatives leave Trump’s masked brunstirts occupy a big American city and send masked men with firearms to jump vehicles and attack workers of the day in Home Depot. They violently leave these itinerant patrols surround and attack a tamale seller to be a tamale seller, without asking his immigration status. They let the ice appear with car washing and striking Only people related to Hispanics, without even questioning white immigrants.

At a time when the decisions of the Supreme Court were almost universally dark, it was one of the darkest. Los Angeles federal agents are engaged in racial profiling and racialized violence. Ice agents terrorize the city, and people are afraid to go out, go to work or go everywhere so that they are arrested and detained without reason, except for the color of their skin. It is one of the most non -American imaginable things and the kind of thing that the Supreme Court is supposed to intervene and stop.

Instead, the six conservatives of the Court said that Trump’s desire to engage in the most xenophobic imaginable racism, for wreak havoc In an American city because it does not have a sufficient number of whites, is so important that it cannot be arrested, even for a moment, while the dispute takes place. Without any explanation, the six conservatives of the Court said how these efforts they support. He certainly does not feel great to see the protections of the fourth amendment dismantled with a word.