Is there anything that Trump does that will be found unconstitutional by this supine Supreme Court?
ICE “roving patrols” have stopped and detained people who looked Hispanic, on suspicion that they might be “illegals.” Some were U.S. citizens.
Lower courts said such practices violated the Fourth Amendment.
The Supreme Court’s rightwing majority overruled the lower courts.
The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s push to allow immigration enforcement officials to continue what critics describe as “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts said likely violated the Fourth Amendment.
The court did not offer an explanation for its decision, which came over a sharp dissent from the three liberal justices.
At issue were a series of incidents in which masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled aside people who identify as Latino – including some US citizens – around Los Angeles to interrogate them about their immigration status. Lower courts found that ICE likely had not established the “reasonable suspicion” required to justify those stops.
The decision deals with seven counties in Southern California, but it has landed during a broader crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration – and officials are likely to read it as a tacit approval of similar practices elsewhere.
A US District Court in July ordered the Department of Homeland Security to discontinue the practice if the stops were based largely on a person’s apparent ethnicity, language or their presence at a particular location, such as a farm or bus stop. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld that decision, which applied only to seven California counties.
But the Supreme Court disagreed with that approach.
The majority claim to be “originalists” who adhere to the letter of the Constitution and its original meaning.
But they are originalists only when it suits their political goals.
The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable search and seizure. It reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
To stop and search and seize people because they look Hispanic or they are not white is the very definition of “unreasonable search and seizure.”
Shame on the six members of the U.S. Supreme Court who joined this egregiously bad opinion.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-cases-federal-judges-criticize-rcna221775
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The current Supreme Court majority has no shame, so saying “shame” on them is worthless.
The current Supreme Court are “originalists” only insofar as they fabricate their own original interpretations of our Constitution to fit their dogmatic minds.
They are liars and remorseless destroyers of our Constitution.
They WANT a monarchy in America because they believe that our Constitution went “too far” in giving We the People very broad personal rights which these “justices” view as the root of all that is “sinful” in today’s America. Remember, these “justices” were raised in a religion that imposes top-down rule and a narrow interpretation of the Bible to fit its dogma. They reflect their rigid, authoritarian upbringing and beliefs.
READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE RIGHT NOW and you’ll find that all the things our Founding Fathers listed in the Declaration as the reasons for breaking away from the rule of the King of England are THE SAME THINGS THAT TRUMP IS DOING TO US NOW!!!
Here is the list of the actual key reasons, with direct quotations from our nation’s Declaration of Independence. The Declaration begins with the following statement:
“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Then, the Declaration lists the Facts:
The King had used armed forces to control American cities and towns, without first asking permission from the legislatures; the Declaration says: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” Just like the sending of armed National Guard units into cities today.
The King made his armed forces the police instead of local police. The Declaration says: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”
The King’s armed forces were protected from killing civilians: “For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.”
The King ignores civil courts: “He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.”
“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices.”
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.”
“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained.” Today, not only do governors of Red States do nothing without Trump’s approval, neither does Congress.
The Declaration also says that we also declare our independence from the King for his:
The Declaration says Americans are breaking away because the King has opposed immigration that is vital to America’s economic growth, by “obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither.” Already in 1740, laws had been passed to grant “natural born” citizenship status to immigrants who lived there for seven consecutive years.
The King has also been “redistricting” Americans out of their right to representation: “He has refused to pass Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.” Just like the redistricting going on today.
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“They WANT a monarchy in America because they believe that our Constitution went “too far” in giving We the People very broad personal rights which these “justices” view as the root of all that is “sinful” in today’s America.”
Actually what they, and their monied backers, want is a christian nationalist theofascist regime. These religious nutjobs believe they are on the cusp of capturing the “seven mountains” for good.
And many will suffer because of their absurd christian/jewish religious faith beliefs.
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My son-in-law is a green card holding Mexican truck driver. Since the Trump regime took over, he has been subjected to numerous searches and interrogations along his way. These intrusions have resulted in him losing money if he is late for delivery, and he was even placed in handcuffs during one of the stops. What ICE and sometimes local police are doing is profiling and harassment. Fortunately, he has so far avoided being scooped up by over zealous storm troopers, but he has decided to work for a company with a predictable, dedicated route going to California.
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Is he a citizen? Does he have green card?
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He’s not a citizen yet, but he has and always carries his green card. He is a licensed CDL driver.
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“Fascism Alert!” is exactly right!!!
A SCOTUS that is just fine with racial profiling means that now ANYONE could be targeted, not just the people this administration currently hates, since that can too easily be extended to include more than just race, but also religion, gender, politics, whatever they deem to be “unacceptable speech” etc.
Yes, that IS fascism –right here at our door…. So scary and sad!!!
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Oh, but it hasn’t happened yet to me. It must be ok.
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“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”
“1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It indirectly condemns complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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Roy, I realize that your response is not consistent with your own wisdom, as demonstrated often on this blog. And I think most genuine educators today, who believe in honesty and seek to tell the truth. realize they do have skin in the game now, so my reply (which is currently in moderation) is for those who think they have no reason to believe they would be personally effected by fascism, NOT aimed at you.
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The Icetapo marches on!
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Being a Supreme Court Justice is just one factor in deciding a person is a Fascist, but the odds are 2 to 1.
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Of course these Supreme Court justices would never think that THEY would become unnecessary, irrelevant and dangerous under the tyrannical government their decisions will bring about. And that’s the height of hubris. And we know what happens to those people.
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This is straight from the Nazi playbook, where top judges imposed Nazi ideology on the legal system of Germany.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqF3ss746zc “Hitler’s Courts: Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany”
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Russia attacked Poland today. Those of us who’ve feared that, with this administration, we are going to end up on the wrong side of WWIII have very good reason to worry right NOW!!
https://substack.com/@olgalautman
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Also, as mentioned in the above video and reported below, ICE has been deporting Russian asylum seekers and sending them back to Russia… https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admin-returns-russian-dissident-181740645.html
(Whatever Putin has on this POTUS has got to be really HUGE, potentially ranging from evidence of his sexual encounters to proof that Putin was very instrumental in getting him elected here twice.)
OMG!
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If Russian or Cuban asylum seekers are sent back, they face a long prison sentence…or worse.
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I have an American friend who lives with his Polish wife and her two kids in Warsaw. (He wants to come home but has no money.) He just got this message on his phone:
“Warning! In connection with the operation to neutralize objects that have violated the borders of the Republic of Poland, inform the services about the drones or their crash sites. Do not approach them.“
An attack on Poland is how WWII started. How maddening this is!
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