The Alito Supreme Court’s Racism

The current court , with Alito as the LEAD instigator,  IS seemingly working to strip legal efforts to address the racism in America….

And?

NOT just as it applies to Immigration….

Vorting Rights IS Right up there also….

Race has played an important role in U.S. citizenship and immigration law since the earliest days of the nation’s history. By categorizing people into distinct races, Congress and the courts have periodically decided who can acquire citizenship or be subjected to questioning about their right to live in the United States. Last month, Justice Samuel Alito illustrated race’s continued role in immigration law during oral argument in Mullin v. Doe, a case about the Department of Homeland Security’s authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian nationals.

While she was still secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem announced last year that citizens of 13 countries, including Haiti and Syria, would lose TPS, a legal authority that allows certain migrants to live and work in the United States for humanitarian reasons. Geoffrey Pipoly, who represents Haitian TPS recipients, argued that the Trump administration’s choice to terminate TPS protections racially discriminated against migrants of color, showing a “bare dislike of Haitians in particular.”

Alito pushed Pipoly to clarify the boundaries of the racial classifications that he argued violate the due process clause of the Constitution. “Do you think that if you put Syrians, Turks, Greeks, and other people who live around the Mediterranean in a lineup, do you think you could say those people are … all non-white,” Alito asked. “How about southern Italians,” he added, in a reference to his own heritage. After Pipoly responded by saying that “our concept of these things evolves over time,” Alito added, “[y]ou have a really … broad definition of who’s white and who’s not white.”

Alito’s main point was to express his distaste for racial line-drawing. “I don’t like dividing up the people of the world arbitrarily into three racial groups,” he told Pipoly. But by presenting Pipoly with a series of hypotheticals seemingly intended to highlight the ambiguous boundaries of racial categories, Alito thrust the court into familiar territory in defining race. On multiple occasions, the court has addressed racial categorization’s role in immigration law. In every instance, its decisions categorize people based on race or allow immigration law enforcement officers to do so….

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The above does NOT apply to ALL of the court’s members….

image…LA Times