It's hard to say that it's the worst of all (I haven't looked back through this court's trail of travesty, and — of course — there was the 19th century), but today's decision on ICE stopping and detaining people without real basis has to be among its worst. Worst in the sense that they know better and are doing it completely for power and acknowledged white supremacy, rather than assumed white supremacy.
From Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern on BlueSky:
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
From a Facebook friend's post:
The same Supreme Court that said colleges couldn’t use race as a factor in admissions ruled today that ICE can absolutely use race to target people who “look” Hispanic or who look like they have a low-paying job.
What a piece of shit government we have right now. All forms, all fronts, all agencies.
From Elie Mystal, legal writer for the Nation, on BlueSky:
I guess it was smart of the Supreme Court to release its most racist decision since Plessy on the same day it was confirmed that Trump used his signature in the place of a vagina in his pedophile love letter/birthday card.
I'll admit, I can't top that.
Other BlueSky posts:
Education expert Diane Ravitch:
Supreme Court nullifies the 4th Amendment to the Constitution to help Trump.
From journalist and professor Bill Grueskin:
"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6–3 SCOTUS ruling.
From Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social
Race as a factor in college admissions: [thumb down]
Race as a factor in detaining you on the street: [checkmark]
From Anagram Doe
the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people
From Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council:
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
From Chris Sprigman, NYU law professor:
If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.
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