{"id":62630,"date":"2025-12-31T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62630"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:00:54","slug":"slate-brett-kavanaugh-is-trying-to-walk-back-kavanaugh-stops-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62630","title":{"rendered":"Slate: Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d Too Late."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slate: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2025\/12\/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html\">Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d Too Late<\/a>. By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not seem happy that his name has become synonymous with racist immigration enforcement. In September, the justice wrote that Hispanic residents\u2019 \u201capparent ethnicity\u201d could be a \u201crelevant factor\u201d in federal agents\u2019 decision to stop them and demand proof of citizenship. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection promptly seized upon his opinion as a license to stop any Hispanic person on the basis of race\u2014often with excessive, even sadistic force\u2014and detain them until they proved their lawful presence. Law professor Anil Kalhan termed these encounters \u201cKavanaugh stops,\u201d and the name swiftly caught on as evidence mounted that they had become standard practice across the country. Lawyers also provided courts with evidence that Kavanaugh had sanitized the reality of this practice to the point of fiction. The justice claimed that these were \u201cbrief investigative stops\u201d and that any lawful resident would be \u201cpromptly\u201d released. In truth, federal agents brutalized, kidnapped, and tormented people\u2014including many U.S. citizens\u2014simply because of their ethnicity, even after they asserted legal status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it appears that Kavanaugh has some regrets. Last Tuesday, the justice backtracked from his previous position without quite acknowledging the retreat. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back \u201cKavanaugh Stops.\u201d Too Late. By Dahlia Lithwick and 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":[147,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-stops","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62631,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62630\/revisions\/62631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}