The U.S. Supreme Court Monday lifted restrictions barring federal agents from making immigration arrests resulting from “roving patrols” that a Los Angeles federal judge determined targeted people for deportation based on their race or language.

The court ruled by a 6-3 margin, granting the federal government’s emergency appeal of the judge’s temporary restraining order freezing the raids as they had been carried out.

U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong issued the temporary restraining order July 11 barring immigration stops based solely on race or ethnicity, language, location or employment. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals later agreed.

In his majority opinion, conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was nominated to the high court by President Donald Trump in 2018, wrote

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