Hawk Covers the TPS Ruling and the Roberts Court
Everything is Race Neutral to Justice Samuel Alito SUBSCRIBE 👉 @hawkpodcasts Become a Member: / @hawkpodcasts Hawk covers a June 27th article from The Atlantic by Adam Serwer titled "The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is Race Neutral," written in response to the Supreme Court's 6 to 3 TPS ruling that makes 350,000 Haitian and 6,100 Syrian legal immigrants immediately deportable. Serwer's piece documents the Trump administration's explicitly race-based statements about Haitian immigrants, including claims they all have AIDS, eat household pets, are genetically predisposed to crime, and are poisoning the blood of the country. Samuel Alito's majority opinion declined to repeat any of those statements, substituting his own race-neutral explanations for what they might have meant instead. Justice Elena Kagan's dissent noted that the evidence was plain to see in statements the majority and even Trump's own lawyers could not bring themselves to repeat. The article brings in legal scholars including Guy-Uriel Charles of Harvard Law, who describes the ruling as setting up an impossible burden for plaintiffs, Anderson Francois of Georgetown, who notes that the administration now needs only a plausible pretext to discriminate while Black plaintiffs need proof no amount of evidence will satisfy, and Melissa Murray of NYU, who calls this a colorblind constitution the architects of Jim Crow would love. Serwer also traces Alito's selective application of intent, showing he is perfectly willing to read racial motive into policies when white people could be perceived as the victims, as in his 2009 Ricci v. DeStefano opinion, but refuses to do so here. #AdamSerwer #SamuelAlito #ElenaKagan #StephenMiller #JohnRoberts #DonaldTrump #TheAtlantic #TPS #TemporaryProtectedStatus #HaitianImmigrants #SupremeCourt #RacialAnimus #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #JimCrow #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #ImmigrationLaw #RaceNeutral #Hawk Timestamps 0:01 Hawk introduces the TPS ruling and Adam Serwer's Atlantic article from June 27th 0:50 The article's title and opening on the administration's stated desire to purge non-white immigrants 1:45 Trump's documented statements about Haitian immigrants quoted in full 3:10 The immediate impact: 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians immediately deportable 4:50 Harvard Law professor Guy-Uriel Charles on Alito setting an impossible burden for plaintiffs 5:20 Alito's claim that none of Trump's statements were overtly racial 6:48 Kagan's dissent and what Alito substituted in place of quoting Trump's own words 8:10 The Roberts Court turning anti-discrimination law upside down including the voting rights cases 11:02 NYU professor Melissa Murray: a colorblind constitution Jim Crow architects would love 12:00 Alito's selective use of intent: Ricci v. DeStefano versus the TPS case 13:24 Hawk's closing thoughts on Serwer and The Atlantic SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK Support on Patreon: / mdg650hawk Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com Connect on TikTok: / mdg650hawk7thacct Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.b... Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com Connect on Facebook: / hawkpodcasts Connect on Instagram: / mdg650hawk Connect on Twitch: / mdg650hawk ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO Additional Content Available Here: https://www.hawkpodcasts.com / @hawkpodcasts Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfy Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuL YouTube: / @hawkpodcasts iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdP Pandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB