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SCOTUS Has Nullified the 4th Amendment
Just to appease a fascist dictator
I know I’m a little late writing about this, but I needed a moment to compose myself. There were a lot of hysterics but I’m a little calmer now, so I think I can talk about this in a more civilized tone.
If you haven’t heard already, SCOTUS via their shadow docket, struck down a Los Angeles judge’s order that barred “roving patrols” of ICE agents from snatching people off Southern California streets based on how they look, what language they speak, what work they do or where they happen to be.
It was an unsigned order, but because they have been criticized more and more lately for these emergency orders, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote a 10-page opinion to explain the decision. He said:
“Immigration officers ‘may briefly detain’ an individual ‘for questioning’ if they have ‘a reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned … is an alien illegally in the United States.”
He said such stops are reasonable and legal based on the:
“totality of the circumstances. Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations…
