SCOTUSBlog: The Trump administration puts ethnicity on the court’s emergency docket

SCOTUSBlog: The Trump administration puts ethnicity on the court’s emergency docket by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernandez (“Earlier this month, the Department of Justice filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to stay a temporary order from a district court blocking immigration agents in the Los Angeles metropolitan area from using an individual’s ‘apparent ethnicity,’ speaking Spanish or accented English, location, and occupation to determine who might be violating immigration law. To support its arguments in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the DOJ cites a half-century-old decision, United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, which permitted immigration agents to consider an individual’s ethnic appearance in law enforcement actions.”)