‘News Flash From James Madison!’ Joe Scarborough Goes Off on Trump Administration ‘Acting Shocked’ and ‘Ignoring’ Judicial Pushback

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped the Trump administration for “ignoring” judicial pushback to immigration policies and slammed supporters for “acting shocked” by accountability of the courts, saying “this is what happens in Madisonian democracy!”

The remarks come after the Trump administration ignored a federal judge’s order to halt deportation flights carrying 250 alleged Venezuelan gang members, arguing that once the planes were over international waters, the ruling no longer applied.

The move, orchestrated by Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is being understood by critics as a defiance of judicial authority, setting up a constitutional battle.

The White House, however, argued the deportations were legal under the 1789 Alien Enemies Act, which grants broad executive power. El Salvador accepted the deportees.

At the opening of Tuesday’s show, Scarborough unleashed on the protest from the pro-MAGA commentators – berating them as “bloggers” who either didn’t know their history or were “ignoring” it and the constitution.

We just saw a member of the Trump administration saying he doesn’t care what a judge think. News flash from James Madison: You don’t really have that choice!

You know, the thing. I hear a lot of people being shocked — ‘how could a federal judge do this? Well, Donald Trump won by 1.5 percent and how could — well, for bloggers, I’ll say this slowly—this is what happens in Madisonian democracy. Federal judges do have the power to question the authority of a presidential action. And then, as some Republican senators, I think John Kennedy from Louisiana, said, you know, that’s why God created the appellate courts.

But just, again, for our blogging friends — do people still blog? I really don’t know. Do people blog? Do they? ‘I had this sushi last night.’ And so for our [blogging viewers] I am going to talk a little more slowly than usual so they’ll understand it — this happens under America’s Constitution.

It happened to Barack Obama, a guy who won a massive landslide. Biggest landslide win, I think, that we’ve seen since Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama’s [Deferred Action for Parents of Americans] DAPA program was actually stopped by a single federal judge in Texas. He appealed it, and it went up to the Supreme Court.

Or Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. Also, being stopped in 2021 by a single federal judge – guess where – in the state of Texas. You also had Barack Obama’s gender policy stopped by a single federal judge in the state of Texas. And that got appealed. And you had George W. Bush’s NSA warrantless wiretap program getting stopped by a single federal judge back in 2007.

And now what happened after that? What happens under our constitution? They get appealed. And sometimes the judges follow the lower federal court judges, and sometimes they don’t.

But every time I hear somebody go: ‘Oh my God, Donald Trump got elected by one and a half percentage points, how in the world could anybody stop a president who got elected by everybody.’ Well, when he got elected, he was elected to lead one of three parts of our government, three separate and equal co-branches. So this is just what happens.

This happens every year! And the fact that people in the Trump administration and the fact that supporters are acting shocked that a federal judge could do this, just means they either don’t know history. Or they’re ignoring history. And, no, administration officials don’t have the choice to say, ‘I’m not going to listen to what judges say.’

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