by John Binder
President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, labeled illegal aliens in the United States as “noncitizens” before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
During the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate, Jackson answered a question from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) about a D.C. District Court ruling in which she bypassed federal statute to declare that former President Donald Trump’s administration could not expand expedited deportation.
“Expedited removal … a way in which Congress had given the authority to the Department of Homeland Security to make a decision about how to deport people, who are noncitizens,” Jackson stated, opting for President Joe Biden’s preferred characterization of illegal aliens…