Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Credit: C-SPAN screenshot
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito effectively destroyed the argument against barring the executive branch from terminating TPS for migrants with one question, and humiliated an attorney arguing for the migrants.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration could end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. Leftist judges in two separate cases previously ruled that the Administration’s efforts to end TPS for these migrants was unconstitutional.
As Fox News notes, the Supreme Court agreed last month to review the two cases, and granted what’s called “certiorari before judgment.” This refers to reviewing the case on its merits before federal appeals courts can review lower district rulings.
Geoffrey Pipoly, the attorney for the Haitian migrants, claimed during Wednesday’s hearing that the sole reason the Trump administration ended TPS was due to racial prejudice against immigrants of color.
Alito, though, quickly blew up Pipoly’s race-baiting argument and sent him scrambling with a brilliant inquiry: Do you think groups of people such as Turks, Syrians, and Greeks are all non-white?
A stuttering Pipoly admitted that Syrians were actually considered white under State Department rules, thus inadvertently conceding his own argument.
Then, he claimed that most Americans would not consider Syrians white if you polled them and reiterated this crazy, non-legal assertion after Alito followed up.
Alito proceeded to ask again about Turks and Greeks. Pipoly responded by saying he did not know.
When asked about Italians and Spaniards, Pipoly claimed they were not considered white over a century ago which caused Alito to quip, “You have a really broad definition of who’s white and who’s not white.”
How embarrassing for Pipoly.
LISTEN:
An attorney for Haitians says the only reason Trump ended TPS for migrants from a variety of nations is that they’re non-white
Justice Samuel Alito trips him up asking whether Syrians, Greeks, and “southern Italians” are white
“You have a really large definition of who’s white… pic.twitter.com/XAdhJqsCX0
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ALITO: Isn’t it the case that TPS was terminated for quite a list of countries? And (while) none of those is a Nordic country, but when you say they’re all non-white, that’s the distinguishing characteristic?
PIPOLY: That is the distinguishing characteristic that the district court held. But I would emphasize Justice Alito that…
ALITO: But you think that if you put Syrians, Turks, Greeks, and other people who live around the Mediterranean in a lineup, do you think you could say that these people are all non-white?
PIPOLY: I understand that Syrians may be classified as white for the purposes of the State Department or, uh, under certain government programs. But race is, uh, I think, uh, uh, you’d have to poll the public (chuckling) to know what they think the race of a Syrian is. I certainly think they’re not white…
ALITO: Poll the American people to ask if they think Syrians are white?
PIPOLY: I, I, wouldn’t think that most would, Justice Alito.
ALITO: Really? How about Turks?
PIPOLY: I haven’t considered what racial component I would sort Turks into.
ALITO: How about Greeks?
PIPOLY: I don’t know the answer to that either.
ALITO: How about southern Italians?
(laughter)
PIPOLY: Certainly 120 years ago when we had our last wave of European immigration Italians were not considered white so I think things have evolved over time…
ALITO: How about Spaniards?
PIPOLY: Same answer. I think about 120 years ago they were not considered white.
ALITO: You have a really broad definition of who’s white and who’s not white. Again, I don’t like dividing the people of the world into these groups.
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