kavanaugh stop
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A practice in which federal agents detain a person based on their ethnicity, spoken language, and occupation.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Shortly thereafter, Drexel University law professor Anil Kalhan dubbed ICE’s racially motivated activity as "Kavanaugh stops," a term that has also been promoted by Sherrilyn Ifill, a civil rights lawyer at Howard University. The term stems from a concurring opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said that officers may detain someone if they have “a reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the US without legal status."
- "Justice Brett Kavanaugh undid an order by a lower court that barred immigration authorities from using ethnicity as cause to arrest and detain. This is now appropriately called the Kavanaugh Stop."
- "CORNISH: First, remind people what a Kavanaugh stop is, because it's very controversial. WILLIAMS: Right. Well, the – a Kavanaugh stop does not exist. That is just a term that advocates have given. Now, in a concurrence, in an opinion about when migrants can be stopped in the United States, Kavanaugh, Justice Kavanaugh, laid out a number of factors that that can be considered, including language, one's occupation, where they're found, and so on. Many advocates regard it as racial profiling."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage