Ten months into Donald Trump's second presidency — and ahead of Thanksgiving 2025 — his administration, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, continues to draw scathing criticism for their handling of immigration and deportation policies. And some of that criticism is coming from conservative MS Now host and ex-GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough.
During a biting rant the day before Thanksgiving, Scarborough demanded that the U.S. Supreme Court bring some clarity to the Trump Administration's handling of immigration and deportation.
The Never Trump conservative told fellow "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski and their colleagues David Ignatius and Jonathan Lemire — a former Associated Press (AP) reporter — "When (President) Richard Nixon was ordered by the United States Supreme Court to turn over the (Watergate) tapes, he knew he had no choice — and he turned over the tapes immediately even though he knew his time in the White House would be over. I hear some of these people — I understand a lot of them didn't have a good education, and maybe they didn't study civics. But still, I didn't study physics, but I know there are rules of physics I cannot defy, or bad things happen."
Scarborough emphasized that while the United States' immigration laws must be respected and upheld, the Trump Administration's deportation policies are both reckless and "harsh." And the Roberts Court, he lamented, is dropping the ball badly by failing to offer clarity.
The conservative ex-congressman told Brzezinski, Ignatius and Lemire, "We're not talking about upholding the law…. I think it's a problem when you come to America, and the first thing you do is an illegal action. So, I'm pretty conservative on this stuff — more conservative than a lot of the Republicans I served with in Congress on it. That said, you can do two things at once. And the inhumanity, the un-Christ-like behavior of how these mothers and children and grandparents are being dragged out of school lines, are being dragged out of preschools, are being treated in the worst, most despicable ways…. The United States Supreme Court needs to stop allowing this ambiguity, that allows the president of the United States to talk about, illegally, sending Marines, sending troops to American cities."