Joe Scarborough rips JD Vance, questions whether veep learned about due process at ‘uppity school’
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough slammed JD Vance for griping about due process for deported migrants and mocked the vice president for not learning the law at the “uppity school” where he got his degree.
That “uppity school” was Yale, from which Vance graduated in 2013.
The Ivy League school had rejected Scarborough.
“You know, I’m just a simple country lawyer, and I didn’t go to Yale or wherever he went,” Scarborough railed during Wednesday’s broadcast.
“I went to the University of Alabama — Roll Tide — and the University of Florida — go Gators! But I can tell you, I don’t know what they taught at Yale, I can tell you in Southern state schools, they taught something called due process.”
The MSNBC anchor’s rebuke came after Vance lashed out at the media and the “far left” by claiming their insistence on due process for undocumented immigrants is really a demand for “the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently.”
“When the media and the far left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a *third* deportation hearing, what they’re really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently,” Vance said in a longer post on X Tuesday night.
Scarborough went on to cite a Republican town hall in Iowa where angry voters asked Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) why the Trump administration was ignoring last week’s order by the Supreme Court to “facilitate” the return of deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was born in El Salvador.
The Trump administration has alleged that Abrego Garcia is “confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source.” His family has denied the allegation.
“And so you see those people out in Iowa, maybe they did not go to the law school that JD went to, the vice president went to, I don’t know what they teach at those schools because to tell you the truth, I tried to get admitted into Yale Law School and they responded: ‘Dear Mr. Scarborough, no.’ And that was it. That’s about as far as I got,” he said.
“But I guess I should thank Jesus as this is Holy Week that I went to a law school that actually taught due process because the Supreme Court has actually followed the Constitution of the United States. We also read that in Southern state schools,” he added.
“They also taught us that if the Supreme Court rules on something nine to nothing — nine to nothing — that’s the Constitution. That’s the law of the land.”
Scarborough said the Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling meant that due process still existed in America and “existed for people that the administration wanted to grab up and whisk away and take away on an airplane.”
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele claimed on Monday that he has no ability to send Abrego Garcia back to the US despite the Supreme Court’s ruling directing the Trump administration to take “steps to facilitate” his return.
