guarantee we make it out of this period as a democracy, let alone a big one. constitutional law professor lawrence tribe and others vently urged the justice department to take action saying to decline to investigate would be appeasement and appeaing bullies and wrongdoers only encourages the same. they re practically shouting from the rooftop. the question is whether anyone is listening. with me now, stewart stevens, a senior advice sore to the lincoln project and democratic strategists and michael eric dyson professor at vanderbilt university and author of entertaining race performing blackness in america. juanita, i want to start with you. look what is happening in our democracy, there is a lot of focus on that but we have to realize what comes after you
i mean, in practice, in actual practical situations, and again, i was a prosecutor. i prosecuted a lot of drug cases based on reasonable suspicion where an officer stopped someone because they believed that this person fits some sort of profile of being a drug dealer. this is exactly the same thing. officers would be allowed to stop someone based on what, in their mind, they believe is a reasonable suspicion that this person is an illegal immigrant. what other basis would you have for stopping someone other than the fact that the person was latino? kathy, you think this is also legalized profiling, basically? well, of course, it s racial profiling. the voters in arizona 12% of the voters in arizona are latino. so they re getting away with appeaing the majority. so because we don t have a big latino voice in arizona, they think they can get away with this. unfortunately, all the latinos around the country are paying attention, the largest latino