Vice President J.D. Vance was raked over the coals on Wednesday morning for a series of social media posts on X on Tuesday where he continued to defend the Donald Trump administration for wrongfully shipping a Maryland man to El Salvador despite an admonition from the Supreme Court.
With the battle over the deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a notorious Salvadoran prison camp reaching the point where even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is stepping in and deploring the lack of due process, Vance has doubled down and blown off concerns.
In a long post on X, Vance argued, "To say the administration must observe 'due process' is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors. To put it in concrete terms, imposing the death penalty on an American citizen requires more legal process than deporting an illegal alien to their country of origin."
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He then added, "Here's a useful test: ask the people weeping over the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with Biden's millions and millions of illegals. And with reasonable resource and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year?"
That led MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to question Vance's legal education at what he mocked as "uppity" Yale Law School.
On "Morning Joe," Scarborough stated, "Well, you know, I'm just a simple country lawyer, and I didn't go to Yale or wherever he went; Yale, Harvard, whatever uppity schools he went to. I went to University of Alabama, roll tide, and 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."
Noting a viral clip of voters in Iowa getting in the face of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) in defense of Abrego Garcia, Scarborough added, "So you see those people out in Iowa, maybe they did not go to the law school that J.D. went to, the vice president went to," before moving on to, "I guess I should thank Jesus on 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."
For good measure he noted, "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. And so to tweet that after the Supreme Court ruled nine to nothing, that due process still existed in America and existed for people that that that the administration wanted to grab up and whisk away and take away on an airplane, right? For a guy that went to Yale Law School, I think he went to Yale Law School, that's kind of unbelievable."
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