Justices Jackson, Sotomayor grill Trump’s SCOTUS lawyer over ‘s—hole countries’ jab in Syrian, Haitian migrant case
During Supreme Court oral arguments, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned the Trump administration's rationale for ending temporary protected status (TPS) for Syrian and Haitian migrants, citing President Trump's past remarks about "s—hole countries" as potential evidence of racial bias. The justices pressed the administration's lawyer on whether the decision was motivated by discriminatory intent, pointing to Trump's rhetoric linking immigrants to national decline. The case centers on whether the TPS termination was based on legitimate geopolitical concerns or unconstitutional racial animus.
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Politics Justices Jackson, Sotomayor grill Trump’s SCOTUS lawyer over ‘s—hole countries’ jab in Syrian, Haitian migrant case By Ryan King Published April 29, 2026, 4:41 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — President Trump’s bashing of migrants from “s—hole countries” and other fiery immigration rhetoric came back to haunt him during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday. While considering a case over the Trump administration’s bid to yank temporary protected status (TPS) for thousands of Syrian and Haitian migrants, Democrat-appointed justices latched onto his hot rhetoric to imply the White House was being racist. “Now we have a president saying at one point that Haiti is a ‘filthy, dirty and disgusting s—hole country,'” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.
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