Brett Kavanaugh’s Shadow Docket Attack of Your Civil Liberties

When Government Is Afraid of the People, Tyranny Has No Chance

ShareBecause of the decision made this week by the doughiest white boy on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, to allow racial profiling by ICE, 65 million Hispanic Americans now live in terror of the police, carrying their passports and dreading traffic stops or shopping at Home Depot. If you’re not a criminal, you shouldn’t fear government. Instead, as Jefferson often pointed out, government should fear you.This is the foundation of the America…

Brett Kavanaugh’s Shadow Docket Attack of Your Civil Liberties

Whether motivated by animus or naïveté, the justice’s rationale for permitting law enforcement to racially profile suspects has dark implications for democracy.

SCOTUS Shadow Docket Ruling Okays Racial Profiling

Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty On Monday (Sept. 8), the conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that lifted limitations on “roving” patrols by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Los Angeles, California, detaining those who simply looked Latino or spoke Spanish. It was done in a “shadow docket,” which refers to “orders and summary decisions that defy [the Court’s] normal procedural regularity.” The term was …