Justice Sonia Sotomayor is blasting her conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court, accusing them of dangerously stripping away Americans’ constitutional freedoms by green-lighting racial-profiling raids.
“That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, wrote in a scathing, 20-page dissent issued Monday. “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.”
In a 6–3 decision, the court blocked a July order from a Biden-appointed federal judge in Los Angeles that had restricted immigration agents from conducting stops without “reasonable suspicion.” That ruling followed widespread allegations that officers were rounding up seemingly random H