U.S. Supreme Court Allows Racial Targeting ICE Raids to Continue in LA

23 Kapura 9 9/8/2025, 5:20:29 PM reuters.com ↗

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JumpCrisscross · 33m ago
neuronexmachina · 18m ago
I think the dissent said it pretty well:

> A Federal District Court found that these raids were part of a pattern of conduct by the Government that likely violated the Fourth Amendment. Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping individuals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of reasonable suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate.

> Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

shrubble · 24m ago
Re “US Supreme Court Allows Racial Targeting…”

This is not the title of the article

JumpCrisscross · 13m ago
Thank you. Flagged; will unflag once fixed.

From the HN guidelines: “…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

aredox · 22m ago
But it is the content of the article, and of the decision.

You would not play on words, if you were "colored".

mdhb · 23m ago
It’s actually much more accurate and helpful than the one in the article which is itself editorialised. This just states the main outcome neutrally.

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dgfitz · 20m ago
Title as of 1339 EST on TFA: US Supreme Court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids

Title here: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Racial Targeting ICE Raids to Continue in LA

aredox · 23m ago
The Supreme Court as an arbiter is dead. You guys are not a Democracy anymore, not even an "imperfect" one.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/...