{"id":62056,"date":"2025-10-03T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62056"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:51:32","slug":"slate-theres-a-new-lawsuit-against-kavanaugh-stops-its-absolutely-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62056","title":{"rendered":"Slate: There\u2019s a New Lawsuit Against \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d It\u2019s Absolutely Devastating."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slate: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2025\/10\/scotus-analysis-kavanaugh-stops-supreme-court-lawsuit.html\">There\u2019s a New Lawsuit Against \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d It\u2019s Absolutely Devastating.<\/a> by Dahlia Lithwick &amp; Mark Joseph Stern:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Gregory Bovino, the officer in charge of roving immigration enforcement in American cities, admitted this week that his agents arrest people based on \u201chow they look.\u201d Asked by a WBEZ reporter to elaborate, Bovino said the pertinent question was how \u201cthey\u201d appear as \u201ccompared to\u201d the reporter, a white man. Bovino\u2019s candor stripped away any pretense: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are detaining individuals because they look Latino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court greenlit that approach, effectively legalizing racial profiling in immigration enforcement by a 6\u20133 vote. Although the majority did not explain its decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh tried to muster a defense in a solo concurrence whose reasoning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/bonus-177-a-closer-look-at-justice\">crumbled upon scrutiny<\/a>. Kavanaugh insisted that ICE agents may use a person\u2019s \u201capparent ethnicity\u201d as a \u201crelevant factor\u201d when deciding whether to arrest them. But he assured readers that agents may use ethnicity only in combination with other, nonracial factors when deciding whom to target. He also insisted that these \u201cimmigration stops\u201d are a minor inconvenience for \u201cthose individuals who are legally in the country,\u201d writing: \u201cThe questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: There\u2019s a New Lawsuit Against \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d It\u2019s Absolutely Devastating. by Dahlia Lithwick &amp; Mark Joseph Stern:<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62056","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=62056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62058,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62056\/revisions\/62058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}