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Sotomayor Faults Kavanaugh Over Immigration Stops Concurrence
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized a fellow Justice for failing to grasp the real-world effects of an unsigned order last year that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps, which, among other things, take race into account, in Los Angeles to resume. She said that:
>βI had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,β Sotomayor said, referencing a concurrence written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during an event Tuesday hosted by the University of Kansas School of Law. βThis is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesnβt really know any person who works by the hour. Those hours that they took you away, nobodyβs paying that person. And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night and maybe just cold supper
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For a reminder in case called Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, Supreme Court on emergency docket, stayed order form court in California that would block immigration raids that are in part based on things like race. The majority voted that way, 6 of them, but only Kavanaugh wrote an explanation for his vote. He said race is not enough alone, but can be taken into consideration with other factors, like language and type of job, to give reasonable suspicion for stops that he said are " typically briefβ and impacted individuals may βpromptly go free" when they show they are citizens or otherwise legally here. Left-wing groups have since started calling those stops Kavanaough stops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh\_stop
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Analysis Summary
This is real β Justice Sotomayor did criticize Kavanaugh's reasoning in an immigration stops case at a Kansas law school event. The Bloomberg Law article confirms the core facts: the Supreme Court's September emergency order allowing race-based targeting in immigration sweeps, Kavanaugh's concurrence claiming stops are 'typically brief,' and Sotomayor's public response that hourly workers face real financial harm from even short detentions. The Reddit post accurately reflects the article, though it labels the case name without Bloomberg confirming it, and slightly broadens 'progressives' to 'left-wing groups.' What matters here: this is a genuine clash over whether judicial theory matches lived economic reality for working people.
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βJustice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh for failing to grasp real-world effects of an unsigned order that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps in Los Angeles based partly on raceβ
Directly confirmed by Bloomberg Law article. Sotomayor made public remarks at University of Kansas School of Law criticizing Kavanaugh's concurrence on immigration stops.
βThe Supreme Court issued an emergency order pausing lower court rulings that barred immigration agents from targeting people based on language, occupation, race, or locationβ
Bloomberg article confirms September 8 emergency order without majority rationale. Kavanaugh wrote concurrence allowing race as factor with other considerations.
βKavanaugh wrote that legal residents' encounters with immigration agents are 'typically brief' and individuals 'promptly go free'β
Direct quote from Kavanaugh's concurrence as reported by Bloomberg. Sotomayor challenged this characterization during her remarks.
βSotomayor argued that even brief detentions have significant financial consequences for hourly workers, affecting ability to feed their familiesβ
Bloomberg article includes her direct quote: 'Those hours that they took you away, nobody's paying that person. And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night.'
βThe case is called Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo and was decided on the Supreme Court emergency docketβ
Reddit post names the case, but Bloomberg article does not provide case name or confirm this specific case name. Cannot independently verify from search results provided.
βLeft-wing groups have since started calling these stops 'Kavanaugh stops'β
Bloomberg reports 'Progressives have nicknamed such encounters "Kavanaugh stops."' Reddit's claim about 'left-wing groups' is slightly broader attribution than the article specifies, but essentially accurate.
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