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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A lower court had temporarily barred ICE from detaining people based solely on factors like “they are speaking Spanish” or “they are day laborers waiting outside Home Depot in the morning.” By blocking that lower court order, the members of the court’s conservative supermajority have once again used the shadow docket to give their very favorite president everything for which he asks. Only the three liberals noted their dissent.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who look

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