Why the Supreme Court is allowing controversial deportations to continue
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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| 0:28.0 | It's in our Constitution that everyone, all persons, not just all citizens, get due process. |
| 0:32.8 | So the idea that we would consider that a victory is discouraging in a sign of our times. |
| 0:43.0 | The Supreme Court hands a win to President Trump, ruling deportations of Venezuelans, can continue for now. |
| 0:56.5 | It's Tuesday, April 8th, and this is here and Now Anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Ashley Locke, in for Chris Bentley. |
| 1:05.0 | Today on the show, how tariffs have sent Nintendo scrambling. |
| 1:09.5 | And a new museum shows how public housing has helped families. So much of what we value in this Commonwealth called America, like has its roots and was shaped by public housing. |
| 1:21.1 | But first, the Trump administration is celebrating two moves by the Supreme Court. |
| 1:26.7 | First, justices have paved the way for the |
| 1:29.2 | government to continue deporting Venezuelans, that the administration claims are connected to the gang, |
| 1:34.9 | Tren de Ragua. And then separately, the Supreme Court has blocked a judge's order to bring a man |
| 1:40.8 | home to Maryland, that the Trump administration deported by mistake to El Salvador. |
| 1:46.1 | Robin Young spoke with Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia, to better |
| 1:51.4 | understand all of this. Robin started out asking about the case of the Venezuelans. It was a narrow |
| 1:57.1 | procedural ruling. The court said the migrants' lawyers filed in the wrong court, |
| 2:01.7 | and that the deportations can continue for now under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. But the ruling did not |
| 2:08.4 | say whether it was constitutional. This is what Amanda had to say. So there's two pieces to the court's |
| 2:14.2 | ruling. First, the court said that courts do indeed play the role of, |
| 2:19.7 | as they should, always, of reviewing the deportation to determine whether they're legal and constitutional |
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