There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court greenlit that approach, effectively legalizing racial profiling in immigration enforcement by a 6–3 vote. Kavanaugh insisted that ICE agents may use a person’s “apparent ethnicity” as a “relevant factor” when deciding whether to arrest them. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOn this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the lawsuit and how it exposes the brutal, racist reality of Kavanaugh stops. As you said, this is all in some ways a direct response to Kavanaugh’s reframing of immigration stops as a big nothing burger.