open season

The Republican-appointed justices have already declared open season on precedent they hate.

“There is something about this that is pivotal for us—it feels like open season on certain groups of people in this country,” Loudon proclaimed, as Bolling anticipated that liberals would blame the gun.

“The brief is asking the Supreme Court to bless open season on anybody on Los Angeles who happens to be Latino.”

It’s like declaring “open season” for racism — an invitation to discrimination.

Acevedo also worried about officers feeling emboldened to bend or break the rules in the current climate: “You don’t want to re-create the perception, real or not, that it’s open season for bad policing, because you’re going to have that small percentage that’re going to act on that belief that they’re not going to be held accountable.”