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Kavanaugh stop (n.) is an immigration stop where agents briefly detain someone over combined factors like apparent ethnicity, language, location, or job.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is a stop that's brief to the judge and an afternoon to the roofer.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is the rare legal doctrine named for its author by the people who object to it.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is reasonable suspicion built from a checklist: accent, zip code, work boots, face.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is a concurrence written in chambers and enforced in a Home Depot parking lot.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is 'free to go,' right after you prove you were free to be here.
In Trump v. Illinois in December 2025, Kavanaugh wrote that officers "must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
Kavanaugh was the only justice to write in support of the unsigned Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo order; Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissented.
Kavanaugh stop (n.) is the Fourth Amendment's lock, swapped for a dimmer switch.
Drexel law professor Anil Kalhan coined the term in a September 2025 social media post: "What we might refer to as a 'Kavanaugh stop.'"