Elie Mystal
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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But this is the problem.
Even when you have all the facts and all the law on your side,
It just doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter in front of the Supreme Court.
There was an obligation for Trump to provide it until this case, until last week.
The key legal argument wasn't even that Trump was unconstitutionally racist when revoking the status.
The key legal argument was that he didn't conduct the official investigation as required under the law granting TPS that Trump never did the investigation and never found the facts out in terms of whether or not Haiti was safe to go back to.
what the Supreme Court said 6-3, what the Republicans said, is that it doesn't have to.
That basically anything that the White House says is something that the Supreme Court has to just take on faith, and they can't question whether or not Trump did a real investigation.
So think about it this way.
On one side of their mouth, they told us that whatever Trump says, we have to assume that it's true.
And on the other side of the mouth, they said you can't ever listen to what Trump says.
Those are the two dragons of the TPS case.
When Trump says that he conducted an investigation, you have to take him at his word.
When Trump is racist, you have to ignore it.
Do you think there's going to be a president AOC?
Because if it's not a president AOC, what I perceive happening is the next Democratic president being like, well, I don't want to be called soft on immigration, so I'm not going to.
Oh, no, I get that.
Yes, I'm just I'm talking about the implications of the ruling.
But the other issue here, and this really gets into another case, the slaughter case, the destruction of the administrative case situation, is that there is a lot of presidential power that the court is giving to Trump that arguably the next Democratic president will also hold.
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