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BumRushDaShow

(160,069 posts)
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 03:11 AM Sep 9

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 Monday’s Supreme Court ruling authorizing immigration agents’ use of racial profiling, saying it’s “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

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Sotomayor Scorches Supreme Court's Racial Profiling Ruling In Blistering Dissent (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 9 OP
K & R SunSeeker Sep 9 #1
Kick orangecrush Sep 9 #2
KnR Hekate Sep 9 #3
Kick democrank Sep 9 #4
Temporary Stay JustAnotherGen Sep 9 #5
Well, still not good. bluestarone Sep 9 #12
Agreed JustAnotherGen Sep 9 #13
K&R ms liberty Sep 9 #6
Trump's 1st term is making Trump FASCISM possible in his 2nd term Martin Eden Sep 9 #7
It was Turtle's revenge BumRushDaShow Sep 9 #9
Fascist 6 keep on going, working with krasnov to turn the US into an christofascist autocracy. lark Sep 9 #8
At the rate things are going popsdenver Sep 9 #14
Justice Sotomayor will appear on Stephen Colbert's Late Show tonight FakeNoose Sep 9 #10
Thanks for the heads up. yellow dahlia Sep 9 #18
K&R. Wednesdays Sep 9 #11
Maybe the Dems can one day wally baby Sep 9 #15
One of the few honest Supreme Court Justices left on the Supreme Court. Martin68 Sep 9 #16
K&R for a court gone KKK. usonian Sep 9 #17
If racial profiling is OK markbark Wednesday #19

JustAnotherGen

(37,036 posts)
5. Temporary Stay
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 05:59 AM
Sep 9

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)
12. Well, still not good.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 12:20 PM
Sep 9

They know better. They also know they will STALL at every opportunity.EVERY TIME!!

JustAnotherGen

(37,036 posts)
13. Agreed
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 12:27 PM
Sep 9

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.

Martin Eden

(14,881 posts)
7. Trump's 1st term is making Trump FASCISM possible in his 2nd term
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:35 AM
Sep 9

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)
9. It was Turtle's revenge
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:18 AM
Sep 9

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)
8. Fascist 6 keep on going, working with krasnov to turn the US into an christofascist autocracy.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:18 AM
Sep 9

I loathe every single one of them!!

popsdenver

(452 posts)
14. At the rate things are going
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 12:36 PM
Sep 9

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)
10. Justice Sotomayor will appear on Stephen Colbert's Late Show tonight
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:02 AM
Sep 9

I expect she'll have a lot to say about this ruling...

markbark

(1,616 posts)
19. If racial profiling is OK
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 09:10 AM
Wednesday

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.

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