LOADING ERROR LOADINGIn a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor knocked Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens. She was referring to the case of Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, in which Kavanaugh wrote an opinion framed as a concurrence to the unsigned majority ruling. Immigration agents were accused of engaging in racial profiling to detain people who appeared to be Latino in order to determine their citizenship status. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh as someone who "probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour. These encounters have come to be known as “Kavanaugh Stops,” after the justice’s concurrence authorizing them.

Source: Huffington Post April 09, 2026 00:04 UTC