Sotomayor Scorches Supreme Court's Racial Profiling Ruling In Blistering Dissent
Source: Huff Post
Sep 8, 2025, 03:21 PM EDT | Updated an hour ago
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent to Mondays Supreme Court ruling authorizing immigration agents use of racial profiling, saying its unconscionably irreconcilable with the U.S. Constitution.
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, Sotomayor wrote.
Her dissent is peppered with documented instances of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles this year using physical force to stop people they suspected of being in the U.S. illegally because of their location, jobs, apparent race or spoken language.
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, she continued. Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sonia-sotomayor-racial-profiling-dissent_n_68bf0681e4b055a5037b975c

SunSeeker
(56,638 posts)orangecrush
(26,693 posts)democrank
(11,771 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,036 posts)Not final.
It's still in the 9th Circuit which will determine if the 4th, 5th, & 14th are being violated.
If 9th agrees with the original ruling, then it goes back up to SCOTUS if The Regime decides to try it again.
Keep the faith.
bluestarone
(20,282 posts)They know better. They also know they will STALL at every opportunity.EVERY TIME!!
JustAnotherGen
(37,036 posts)But from my pov - SCOTUS has painted themself into a corner.
The Fearless Fund and College Acceptance - deemed illegal due to race based considerations.
If SCOTUS takes it back up after the 9th circuit - they are leaving themselves (the evil 6) open to Gitmo (when the regime falls) if they talk out of both sides of their mouths.
The more we start talking/writing the word 'Reckoning' and 'Tribunal' the more we can say -
Ignore was not an excuse. You were warned.
ms liberty
(10,582 posts)Martin Eden
(14,881 posts)His three SCOTUS picks are the key.
Things would be VASTLY different if Hillary Clinton had those three picks.
I know there is nothing to gain by dwelling on the 2016 election, but right now I can't restrain my anger at those who voted for Stein, stayed home, or thought the Orange Creature was even remotely fit to be president.
BumRushDaShow
(160,069 posts)for his foolish, very vocal "promise" to make Obama "a 1-term President"... and then that wishcasting failed.
So his next best thing was to sit on Obama's nomination for a SCOTUS Justice for almost a year after Scalia bought the farm, and that allowed 45 to fill that and the 2 additional slots that came after the 2016 election.
lark
(25,443 posts)I loathe every single one of them!!
popsdenver
(452 posts)Those 6 and Trump, along with the Republican Senate and Republican House, I suspect will find a way to do something like charging the liberal members of the USSC with sedition or treason? And appoint new Extreme Right Court members to replace them........
Their MAGAot voters, that they relied on to get them to this place, but won't be needed ever again, are presently being thrown under the bus like all of us.
Same with all of their appointees that have out grown their usefulness, and were immediately thrown aside..
I think that the Republican Supremes, and the "lock step" Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate are being terribly short-sighted, and aren't seeing the big picture in regards to themselves........They haven't realized that in a Dictatorship/Tyranny, there is no such thing as a Judicial Branch of Government, or a Legislative Branch of Government..........And indeed, all that they are enabling, will inevitably be putting themselves out of work......
Same with Trump's Cabinet, Advisors, etc.
AlLL of this daily stuff Trump is doing is being directed by the 2025 group, The Federalists, Steven Miller, etc and their future plans do not include anyone but the top 1%ers, and themselves.........And plans to have every one else, (99%ers) will be reduced to serfs and peasants......
FakeNoose
(38,621 posts)I expect she'll have a lot to say about this ruling...
yellow dahlia
(3,027 posts)Wednesdays
(20,710 posts)
wally baby
(18 posts)start rousting people for suspected gun violations.
Martin68
(26,458 posts)usonian
(20,468 posts)markbark
(1,616 posts)I've a modest suggestion:
Whenever rich white guys are having a board meeting on Wall Street, roll up with a SWAT team and a pile of forensic accountants. I'm sure they'll uncover a plethora of crimes committed in every instance.