How the Supreme Court Legalized Racial Profiling
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How a Supreme Court decision from the shadow docket opens the door to racial profiling, creates a nightmare for millions of Latino Americans, and drains dwindling legitimacy from the court itself.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate, and the co-host of Amicus.
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| 1:12.6 | So, Mark, is racial profiling the law of the land now? |
| 1:17.8 | With some minor qualifications, Mary, the answer is yes. |
| 1:25.1 | Mark Joseph Stern watches the courts for Slate. |
| 1:30.2 | So earlier this week, when the Supreme Court seemed to give the okay for federal agents to demand citizenship papers based on what people look like. I knew. We had to talk. |
| 1:39.1 | The White House is high-fiving a 6-3 decision that critics say Green Light's racial profiling as ICE agents round up |
| 1:47.8 | suspected illegal immigrants. The court's decision was technically about immigration enforcement in |
| 1:54.2 | Los Angeles. Who could be detained? Where and why? But its implications are huge. The Supreme Court has now given the green light |
| 2:05.5 | for law enforcement to profile and detain Angelinos based on their race. |
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