{"id":61944,"date":"2025-09-19T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61944"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:32:15","slug":"scotusblog-roving-patrols-reasonable-suspicion-and-perdomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61944","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSBlog: \u201cRoving patrols,\u201d reasonable suspicion, and <em>Perdomo<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SCOTUSBlog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2025\/09\/roving-patrols-reasonable-suspicion-and-perdomo\/\">\u201cRoving patrols,\u201d reasonable suspicion, and Perdomo<\/a> by Rory Little:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Brignoni-Ponce that having \u201croving patrols\u201d stop cars \u201cnear the border\u201d whose \u201coccupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry\u201d violated the Constitution. But on Sept. 8, in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Supreme Court by an apparent vote of 6-3 put on hold a district court order preventing immigration sweeps of locations such as car washes and parking lots if ICE detains people based only on their ethnicity. Attorney General Pamela Bondi exulted that \u201c[n]ow, ICE can continue carrying out roving patrols in California,\u201d a statement that seems to fly in the face of Brignoni-Ponce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be commended for proposing a concurring explanation in Perdomo (three liberal justices dissented and no other justice published a view). Explanations have been rare on the court\u2019s \u201cshadow docket.\u201d I certainly hope that responsible legal criticism of his concurrence does not discourage his explanatory instinct. But his assertion that Brignoni-Ponce supports the idea that \u201cthe Government has a fair prospect of succeeding on the Fourth Amendment issue\u201d in Perdomo is at best an overreading. If accepted by a majority, his view would constitute a significant doctrinal shift in \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d Fourth Amendment doctrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: \u201cRoving patrols,\u201d reasonable suspicion, and Perdomo by Rory Little:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,35,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61959,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61944\/revisions\/61959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}