Joe Scarborough Hammers JD Vance Over Lack of Due Process for Migrants: Didn’t Learn That at Your ‘Uppity School’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough mocked Vice President JD Vance’s complaint about due process for deported migrants and thanked “Jesus” that he didn’t learn law at whatever “uppity school” the Ohioan Republican did.

Vance, who graduated from Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013, took to social media late Tuesday to launch a searing broadside against the media and the “far left” by claiming their insistence on due process for undocumented immigrants is little more than a political smokescreen to halt deportations.

During Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough, himself a law graduate from the University of Florida, mocked the post and Vance’s take:

You know, I’m just a simple country lawyer, and I didn’t go to Yale or wherever he went: Yale, Harvard, whatever uppity schools he went to. I went to the University of Alabama – roll tide – and University of Florida – go Gators! But I can tell you, I don’t know what they taught at Yale, I can tell you in southern state schools, they taught something called due process. Right?

Scarborough then pivoted to mention in passing a GOP town hall in Iowa where angry voters grilled Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) at why the Trump administration was not following a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of a deported Maryland man.

The host continued:

And so you see those people out in Iowa, maybe they did not go to the law school that JD went to, the vice president went to, I don’t know what they teach at those schools because to tell you the truth, I tried to get admitted into Yale Law School and they responded: ‘Dear Mr. Scarborough, no.’ And that was it. That’s about as far as I got.

But I guess I should thank Jesus as Holy Week that I went to a law school that actually taught due process because the Supreme Court has actually followed the constitution of the United States. We also read that in southern states schools.

Again, I don’t know what they did like in the uppity schools that the vice president and everybody in that administration went to. But we actually read the constitution in Alabama, and we read the constitution in Florida. And at Florida Law School, they talked about due process and taught us about due process. They also taught us that if the Supreme Court rules on something nine to nothing – nine to nothing – That’s the constitution. That’s the law of the land.

Rounding on Vance’s post again, he added:

And so to tweet that after the Supreme Court ruled nine to nothing, that due process still existed in America and existed for people that that that the administration wanted to grab up and whisk away and take away on an airplane. Right? For a guy that went to Yale law school – I think he went to Yale law school – that’s kind of unbelievable. But like I said, maybe, I mean, again, maybe, those of us that were raised in middle America, maybe we don’t understand that and went to school in middle America.

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