Hey there, Wetnext Listener. It is Indigenous People's Day today. So the team is off, but we didn't want to leave you hanging in without an episode. Because this holidays had quite the evolution in the U.S. over the years, we thought it would be a good opportunity to return to an amicus episode from September, which is all about who gets to be perceived as an American right now.

The always brilliant Dahlia Lithwick digs deep on the Supreme Court's shadow docket decision,

which permitted racial profiling in ice stops.

Dahlia says it's launched a new Show Your Papers era for migrants and citizens alike.

Take a listen. A new what next episode is going to be in your feeds tomorrow.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick. This is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and the law. Thank you for being with us.

Thank you for being with us. This was another week, teeming with political violence in America, another week in which free speech and guns and respected world leaders raping and trading young girls, the assassination of a major political figure, police brutality against people of

color, the military occupation of another American city in the name of law and order, and

another school shooting was all just another week.

Our show this week will be about authorized state violence against migrants

and asylum seekers and U.S. citizens because of the color of their skin and the language

that they speak and where they are standing, as authorized by a majority of a Supreme Court

that was too embarrassed to even explain itself. But please know that every facet of the Epstein

birthday book and the threats of bloody vengeance for the murder of Charlie Kirk and treatment of

unaccompanied children in government shelters, the promise of the National Guard being sent into Memphis, is all

authorized state violence, as is the jurisprudence that permits it. Please don't say this is not who we are.

This is who we are. It doesn't have to be who we are, but this is what we choose.

On Monday, the Supreme Court issued an order in a case called Nome versus Vasquez-Perdomo that legalized a previously impermissible form of racial profiling done by roving ice

patrols for ostensible immigration purposes.

It was done on the court's emergency

docket by a six to three margin with no explanation or reasoning or guidance for future courts.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a concurrence explaining his own personal views on why this order

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