From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, April 29th.

Beginning in about 15 minutes, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could result in the deportation of

more than a million immigrants who are in this country legally. I'll say that again in case you

didn't believe your ears. Today's Supreme Court oral arguments are about the mass deportation

of people who are in this country legally. The case is known as Mullen versus Doe.

Mullen originally, Nome versus Doe, until Mark Wayne Mullen replaced Christy Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security.

It's about immigrants here legally under the program known as temporary protected status or TPS.

The government's position may be oversimplified,

our guests will correct me if it is, is that even if a TPS recipient faces danger if they're

deported to their country of origin, the U.S. can still deport them if their presence isn't

considered in the national interest.

And that's not a claim that Trump administration only wants to make about individuals.

It's a judgment of immigrants from whole countries, in this case, anyone from Haiti and anyone from Syria.

And depending on how this case goes, it could be applied to people from anywhere.

According to the stats I've seen, the could be applied to people from anywhere. According to the

stats I've seen, the administration is trying to cancel TPS status for anyone from 13 different

countries with possibly more to come. Let's discuss this case now with Emily Bazelon, who writes

about the law and how it affects people for the New York Times. She also teaches at the Yale Law School and as co-host

of the Slate Political Gap Fest podcast. We'll also touch on some other legal news if we have time,

including the latest attempt to prosecute former FBI director, James Comey. Emily, always good of you

to lend us your brain. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. Great to be here.

I took a layperson stab at describing the basic premise of today's case. Would you like to

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