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Edward Markey: “The Supreme Court delivered a devastating ruling in the…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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I'm live on the Senate Floor to urge passage of my Haiti TPS bill. We must protect Haiti TPS.

Published | Video Starts at 01:59

And in April, alongside Senator Van Hollen and Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, we led an amicus brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of over 180 members of Congress in support of Haiti and Syria TPS. But last month The Supreme Court delivered a devastating ruling in the case. The far right justices greenlit the Trump administration's unlawful racist termination for TPS for Haiti and for Syria. The court failed a test of morality. It slammed the doors of justice in the face of more than a million TPS holders, including 45,000 Haitian TPS holders in Massachusetts. (01:59–02:15)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court ruling allowed the termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria, which Edward Markey describes as unlawful and racist.

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