Democrats are renewing calls for court packing after the Supreme Court allowed Trump to deport certain illegal immigrants.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that Trump’s decision to remove Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from certain Haitian and Syrian illegal immigrants granted TPS under former President Joe Biden was not “overtly racial.” Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton responded to the decision by urging Democrats to “reform” the court.
“Rather than protect the hard-working families that contribute to our communities, Trump’s justices are sending them back to the same places they fled. Democrats need to reform the court to preserve our rights and protect TPS families,” Moulton wrote on X.
Democratic New York Rep. Yvette Clarke joined Moulton in blasting the court, saying Congress had waited too long “for this activist court to recalibrate its duty to the law and America’s well-being.”
“SCOTUS is more than eager to prove to this president that it has no interest in serving its constitutional role as a check on the Executive’s power, but instead only as an enabler of its worst abuses,” Clarke wrote. “It’s clear now that this legislative body must seize back the power that our increasingly unequal branches have stolen, and that must start with action to protect the hundreds of thousands of TPS holders whose lives depend upon it.”
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