“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough laid into the U.S. Supreme Courtroom for “dragging” its toes and refusing to step in to deal with ICE and the Trump administration’s anti-immigration ways over the previous yr, warning the Courtroom’s judges, “There isn’t any extra time to waste.”
“What precisely does the Supreme Courtroom of the US do day-after-day?” Scarborough stated throughout a Monday morning section discussing the continued fallout of ICE’s presence in Minneapolis. “The place is the Supreme Courtroom to guard People’ rights? As a result of all they’re doing is sitting again doing nothing. Now we have a rustic that’s being torn aside on the seams by the DHS, by ICE, by Kristi Noem, and the Supreme Courtroom understands what’s taking place right here.”
“They’ve the ability to cease it, and I’ll by no means perceive why they don’t seem to be stepping ahead to do this now,” Scarborough continued. “We don’t need to be on this purgatory till June. What number of extra folks, Chief Justice Roberts, will likely be shot within the streets of America between now and June?” The “Morning Joe” host dismissed arguments that sure members of the Courtroom would possibly want a “highly effective government department” of the federal government.
“You continue to have to guard People’ Constitutional rights!” Scarborough stated. “You continue to need to cease paramilitary forces from having the ability to roam the streets of America with none authorized checks or balances! That is first-year legislation college s—t we’re speaking about right here.”
“What are you petrified of? When are you going to behave to guard the Constitutional rights of People?” Scarborough requested. “It’s time to cease washing your fingers of this matter since you worry you could offend Donald Trump, and it’s time to begin performing. It’s time to begin ruling.” You possibly can watch the complete “Morning Joe” section your self beneath.
Earlier Monday morning, Scarborough praised Unhealthy Bunny for talking out in opposition to ICE on the Grammys Sunday however lamented the truth that the Puerto Rican rapper and singer even had to take action within the first place. “He needed to say final night time, a hispanic famous person, ‘We aren’t savages and we aren’t animals,’ which is strictly how they’ve been handled,” the “Morning Joe” host noticed.
“You see how a lot it’s slicing by means of American in style tradition. This has damaged by means of in a method that’s been devastating for Republicans, politically,” Scarborough added, whereas additionally noting that the occasions of the previous yr have been “clearly devastating for therefore many People, so many American households, so many migrants.”
“The White Home thought they may lie their method by means of this. Kristi Noem thought she may lie her method by means of this,” the “Morning Joe” host concluded. “The stream of lies, it’s caught as much as them. The lies have caught as much as the White Home. The lies have caught as much as ICE. No one believes them anymore. They’re now paying a political value for it, and I pray, I hope and pray that they are going to be smart sufficient — not compassionate sufficient, as a result of there’s clearly not lots of compassion there — they are going to be smart sufficient to transform their course.”
