Sonia Sotomayor was the lone justice to point out Trump's racist history in his move to end DACA
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone member of the Supreme Court to acknowledge the impeached president’s racism in his move to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and in her own concurring opinion said that her colleagues should have considered his history of racist remarks against Mexicans in their decision eventually finding that the Trump administration had illegally ended the popular program.
“Sotomayor agreed the government had goofed, but chided the chief justice for taking an approach that ignored ample evidence of illegal bias from the president targeting Mexican Americans and migrants,” Mother Jones’ Pema Levy reported. Attorney and NBC News columnist Raul A. Reyes said Sotomayor in fact “called out her colleagues” for not considering this: "I would not so readily dismiss the allegation that an executive decision disproportionately harms the same racial group that the President branded as less desirable mere months earlier,” her concurrence stated.
In his legal analysis Thursday, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern wrote that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t join the court’s four liberal justices “because his heart bleeds for young immigrants who faced banishment to a foreign country,” but “because the Trump administration bungled every step of its attempted repeal, hoping the courts would ignore its sloppy, dishonest corner-cutting.” Sotomayor agreed, but the observers write that she believed the court should have gone further because you just can’t ignore the record.
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“First, Sotomayor writes, Roberts was wrong to discount Trump’s myriad racist comments about Mexican immigrants as ‘people who have lots of problems,’ ‘the bad ones,’ ‘criminals, drug dealers, [and] rapists,’ and his comparison of undocumented immigrants to ‘animals,’” Levy writes. “Relatedly, Sotomayor criticizes Roberts for minimizing the disproportionate impact that ending DACA would have on Latinos given the president’s expressed views.”
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