Nebraska County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/nebraska-county-pays-3-million-settlement-for-illegal-raid-of-local-newspapers-office/ #news #marioncountyrecord #marioncountypd #1stamendment #4thamendment #marioncounty #phylliszorn #gideoncody #journalism #ruthherbel #ericmeyer #joanmeyer #nebraska
Nebraska County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/nebraska-county-pays-3-million-settlement-for-illegal-raid-of-local-newspapers-office/ #news #marioncountyrecord #marioncountypd #1stamendment #4thamendment #marioncounty #phylliszorn #gideoncody #journalism #ruthherbel #ericmeyer #joanmeyer #nebraska
I live near Boston, which has always had quite a lot of undocumented immigrants from Ireland; should #ICE send agents up and down Boylston Street looking for red hair and listening for brogues? Chicago has a fair number of Poles, some of whom are in the United States illegally. Will ICE start staking out delis in Jefferson Park & waiting to see who buys a kielbasa?
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
Of course they won’t, because none of this is really about #immigration. It is about the #Trump administration’s attempt to inflame racial tensions & divide Americans, & to acclimate them to the militarization of their streets & the stripping away of their constitutional protections.
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #RacialProfiling #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #fascism #MilitaryState
#Kavanaugh also noted in his concurrence that illegal #immigration “is especially pronounced in the Los Angeles area, among other locales in the United States.” Yes, America has an illegal-immigration problem in various “locales,” & therefore … what? #ICE officials can use #race-based criteria in an area with a lot of #Spanish-speaking citizens?
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
I live near Boston, which has always had quite a lot of undocumented immigrants from Ireland; should #ICE send agents up and down Boylston Street looking for red hair and listening for brogues? Chicago has a fair number of Poles, some of whom are in the United States illegally. Will ICE start staking out delis in Jefferson Park & waiting to see who buys a kielbasa?
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
…In overturning the lower court’s decision, 5 of #SCOTUS’ 6 #RightWing justices…took advantage of their right to remain silent, but Justice Kavanaugh gamely tried to speak up in a concurrence. If his goal was to be reassuring, he did not help matters: Such stops are usually “brief,” he explained. I am not a scholar of the #Constitution, but I had no idea that I could be deprived of my rights under the #4thAmendment …as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments….
#Kavanaugh also noted in his concurrence that illegal #immigration “is especially pronounced in the Los Angeles area, among other locales in the United States.” Yes, America has an illegal-immigration problem in various “locales,” & therefore … what? #ICE officials can use #race-based criteria in an area with a lot of #Spanish-speaking citizens?
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo is a case from #LosAngeles about whether #ICE can stop people because of a suspicion of their being in the #US illegally, based solely, as #SCOTUS blog summarized, on any combination of 4 factors: a person’s “‘apparent #race or #ethnicity,’ speaking in #Spanish or accented English, being present at a #location where undocumented immigrants ‘are known to gather’ (such as pickup spots for day laborers), & working at specific #jobs, such as landscaping or construction.”
#law
…In overturning the lower court’s decision, 5 of #SCOTUS’ 6 #RightWing justices…took advantage of their right to remain silent, but Justice Kavanaugh gamely tried to speak up in a concurrence. If his goal was to be reassuring, he did not help matters: Such stops are usually “brief,” he explained. I am not a scholar of the #Constitution, but I had no idea that I could be deprived of my rights under the #4thAmendment …as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments….
“But wait”, you might object. “The #4thAmendment to the #Constitution prohibits unreasonable search & seizure. Did the Court explain why that protection apparently no longer applies to you if you’re a day laborer or running a fruit stand?”Good luck with that: This #SCOTUS’ majority doesn’t explain itself to anyone. It merely lets stand or overturns the decisions of lower courts—lately, almost always in favor of expanding the power of, & corroding any checks on, President Donald #Trump.
Yesterday, the * #conservative* majority on #SCOTUS allowed #ICE officials to conduct roving patrols & use #RacialProfiling to stop & detain people for no other reason than their #SkinColor, the #language they’re speaking, suspicions about their #national origin—or, really, if #immigration officials just feel like it.
#law #Constitution #4thAmendment #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
As I was saying ↑
The #Government Wants to See Your Papers
And #SCOTUS decides that the #4thAmendment might not be for everyone.
“You there. Stop what you’re doing. Take off that tool belt & hard hat—let’s see some ID. Why? Because we don’t think you’re a citizen. Now show us your papers.”
This kind of behavior by government officials is now legal in the #US.
#GiftArticle #law #Constitution #ActivistCourt #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/supreme-court-ice-detain-decision/684154/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZ3TOtAlnZrZX_w2PMwFTmY