Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a stinging rebuke of the Supreme Court's decision to clear the way to allow sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a victory on its immigration policy, overturning a lower court's ruling that had prevented federal agents from enforcing immigration operations based solely on factors such as race, job, location, or the language spoken. Critics of this policy argued that it intruded on people's civil liberties. The conservative majority ruled 6-3 to overturn the ruling, with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also joining the dissent. Sotomayor slammed the majority opinion as "yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket." "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job," she said. "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." She warned that the concurrence has "all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction." The Fourth Amendment would prohibit the government from seizing individuals based on a "set of facts that 'describes a very large category of presumably innocent' people," she wrote. "Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor. Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities," Sotomayor wrote. Sotomayor concluded by describing the ruling as being "unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation's constitutional guarantees" to be "free from arbitrary interference by law officers."
Sotomayor is kind of dim. Something has to be done to get the illegal aliens out. What she should be doing is condemning la for being a sanctuary.Sotomayor blasts Supreme Court's "unconscionably irreconcilable" decision
Sotomayor delivered a stinging rebuke of the Court's decision to clear the way to allow sweeping immigration operations in LA.www.newsweek.com
Trump's conservative Roberts "rubber stamp" Court majority gave its imprimatur to once again legalize racial profiling.
Sotomayor is kind of dim. Something has to be done to get the illegal aliens out. What she should be doing is condemning la for being a sanctuary.
A national ID smart card replacement for the Social Security card could help resolve the issue.
The ideology of God given constitutional rights?Sometimes pragmatism wins over ideology.
Yes, I believe that's called the tyranny of the majority. This has been used to support Trump's first term.The needs of the many wins over the discomfort and inconvenience of the few.
Sometimes pragmatism wins over ideology. The needs of the many wins over the discomfort and inconvenience of the few.
Sotomayor is kind of dim. Something has to be done to get the illegal aliens out. What she should be doing is condemning la for being a sanctuary.
A national ID smart card replacement for the Social Security card could help resolve the issue.
As legal entry into the U.S. is not a State issue but a Federal issue, any ID should like the Social Security numbers be Federally created and maintained with some law enforcement access. IMO, State and local governments should work closely with ICE to rectify the illegal entry issue and there should be NO sanctuary States or cities, simply a population where all inhabitants maintain a legal temporary or permanent residency within the U.S.A. with clear penalties defined for those who do not. Though I live abroad, my 77 year old barely readable Social Security card remains in my wallet.Having a valid state-issued REAL ID should be sufficient, since many foreign nationals are here legally. If (sanctuary?) states are issuing REAL IDs to illegal aliens then those states should lose federal funding.
Can ICE give out speeding tickets?If Republicans were going to dehumanize a group, I wish it would have been people who actually cause harm like drivers who exceed the speed limit or don’t follow the car in front of them at a safe distance.
Yup. The SCOTUS is illegitimate and corrupt. It is no longer representative of the people. The right-wing on the SCOTUS are nothing but Trump ball-jugglers. They are a disgrace to this country and to the legal profession.Sotomayor blasts Supreme Court's "unconscionably irreconcilable" decision
Sotomayor delivered a stinging rebuke of the Court's decision to clear the way to allow sweeping immigration operations in LA.www.newsweek.com
Trump's conservative Roberts "rubber stamp" Court majority gave its imprimatur to once again legalize racial profiling.
Yup. The SCOTUS is illegitimate and corrupt. It is no longer representative of the people. The right-wing on the SCOTUS are nothing but Trump ball-jugglers. They are a disgrace to this country and to the legal profession.
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