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Justices Jackson, Sotomayor grill Trump's SCOTUS lawyer over 's—hole countries' jab in Syrian, Haitian migrant case

New York Post·Ryan King·about 1 month ago
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WASHINGTON —  President Trump’s bashing of migrants from “ s—hole countries ” and other fiery immigration rhetoric came back to haunt him during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday. While considering a case over the Trump administration’s bid to yank temporary protected status (TPS) for thousands of Syrian and Haitian migrants, Democrat-appointed justices latched onto his hot rhetoric to imply the White House was being racist. “Now we have a president saying at one point that Haiti is a ‘filthy, dirty and disgusting s—hole country,'” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. “I’m quoting him.” “He declared illegal immigrants, which he associated with TPS, as poisoning the blood of America,” she went on. “I don’t see how that one statement is not … showing that a discriminatory purpose may have played a part in this decision.” Democrat appointed justices latched onto President Trump’s past rhetoric about immigrants.…

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