Perryman: “This ruling is very concerning, and especially the fact that the court did not even share with the American people its reasoning here.”
Perryman: “You have an administration that is just flaunting court orders.”
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democracy Forward President & CEO Skye Perryman joined MSNBC’s Anna Cabrera Reports to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the Trump-Vance administration’s practice of deporting individuals to third party countries without providing them an opportunity to challenge the country to which they will be removed. Democracy Forward and partners have acted swiftly in challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s executive overreach to unlawfully remove people from the country without any due process, to insist that court orders be followed, and to challenge unlawful immigration practices.
Key Perryman Excerpts:
- On the Supreme Court’s decision to allow deportations to continue without due process: “I think it’s very concerning that we continue to see the Supreme Court issue orders that are pausing what our federal courts are doing across the country, endangering people and not even explaining their decisions. This is yet another order that we’ve seen where the only justices that bothered to write anything down were the dissenting justices.”
- On how this ruling may impact the legal landscape: “This ruling is very concerning, and especially the fact that the court did not even share with the American people its reasoning here. But the Constitution is still intact. And you’ve already seen the federal judge in this case – because of other legal theories in the case – issue an order this morning about the particular plaintiffs in the case. So for organizations like us and so many others, we want the American people to know that there are lawyers that are going to be in court every single day insisting on process, and that the Supreme Court, with this order, did not decide any legal issue.”
- On if the Trump-Vance administration will abide by the scope of the court order: “You have an administration that is just flaunting court orders, including, by the way, in this case, disregarding court orders from lower courts across the country, those orders that keep people safe. And then at the same time, anytime they get an order that they may agree with, they want to blow it out of proportion and act like it’s a bigger win than it actually is. And so we’re of course monitoring that, as are so many lawyers, and are just going to continue to insist that the courts protect the rights of people and that this administration protects the rights of people and will use the courts to hold them accountable.”
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