The Supreme Court’s recent ruling empowering ICE and local officials to detain people off the street based solely on how they look or speak is a constitutional and moral disgrace. As Justice Sotomayor warned in her dissent, the majority has carried out “a power grab” that undermines democracy and “further entrenches racial inequality.” By upholding the power of immigration agents and police to target people arbitrarily, the Court has opened the door to legalized racial profiling and arbitrary imprisonment.
This is not hypothetical. Latino and immigrant communities will be stopped, questioned, and detained for nothing more than speaking Spanish, having an accent, or looking “foreign.” The decision abandons equal protection and revives the cruel logic of Jim Crow policing — a system where the color of your skin or the sound of your voice determines your freedom. Sotomayor’s words are a warning: “The Court cements a legacy of inequity that our Constitution was meant to uproot.”
The majority pretends neutrality while normalizing state violence against marginalized people. This ruling strips away hard-won civil rights protections, encourages racial discrimination by law enforcement, and undermines the very idea that justice is blind. It is racism dressed in legal robes.
History tells us where this leads. From Dred Scott to Plessy v. Ferguson to Korematsu, the Court has too often stood on the side of oppression, cloaking injustice in legal reasoning. This ruling joins that shameful lineage, empowering ICE and police to target people of color as second-class citizens.
The framers gave Congress the tools to confront such betrayal. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 81 was clear: impeachment is the remedy when judges abandon their oath and corrupt their power. No justice is above the law.
Congress must begin impeachment inquiries into the justices who have turned the Court into an engine of racism and repression. To allow this decision to stand without accountability is to legitimize white supremacy as constitutional law. That is intolerable in a democracy.
The Supreme Court is supposed to defend the rights of all people, not sanction their oppression. If Congress fails to act now, history will record this moment not only as a judicial disgrace, but as a congressional failure. The time to impeach is now.
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