Judge roasts Supreme Court's atrocious "Kavanaugh stops" ruling.

In the fast-moving law of immigration sweeps, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a major opinion on Tuesday limiting the warrantless arrests taking place in the District of Columbia. The Trump administration had relied on an earlier shadow-docket order, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo , which lifted an injunction prohibiting immigration officers from stopping people solely because of their presumed race, location, or use of Spanish. But Howell concluded that Noem addressed different issues—and that an unexplained shadow-docket order does not exactly bind her: “The court majority merely issued a one-paragraph order granting a stay without any explanation for its holding,” she wrote. “Bluntly put, why the court ruled as it did remains unclear—and without reasoning, this order cannot even