A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court issued a ruling through the shadow docket lifting a lower court order that banned ICE from making stops based on race.
In other words, ICE can now use perceived race — at least in part — as an excuse to kidnap you.
But isn’t that unconstitutional, you say? Well. To paraphrase Justice Kavanaugh: You worry too much! You’d be prettier if you smiled more.
The ruling on the case, Noem v Vasquez Perdomo, was issued without a full opinion or argument. In essence, it allows ICE agents to stop and detain people based on perceived race or ethnicity. They can nab a person who speaks English with an accent or Spanish. They can consider the suspect’s place of work.
Despite Kavanaugh’s reassurances, we’re already seeing ICE ripping brown people out of cars and pressing their bodies against the pavement as they bind their arms behind them.
There is more to this story than this, of course, which is why Bobby Jones welcomed Ryan W. Powers to the show. He’s a lawyer who had the audacity to speak up and was subsequently fired from his major law firm. Now he writes the prescient Substack The Powers Project. You should check it out.
But first, watch this week’s Anchor Watch, of course.
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Bobby also welcomes Sam Osterhout to deep dive into the many ways Americans — and MAGA in particular — have turned their backs on education and expertise in favor of something much, much darker and more dangerous.
As Putin flies his drones into NATO countries, this lack of expertise is about to explode in ways that only the ignorant couldn’t anticipate.
