Hawk Episodes Around June 29, 2026
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
14:00Now PlayingHawk Covers the TPS Ruling and the Roberts Court
Jun 29, 2026·2.8K views
June 29, 2026
2,777
371
63
15.63%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
14:00Now PlayingEverything is Race Neutral to Justice Samuel Alito
SUBSCRIBE 👉 @hawkpodcasts
Become a Member
Hawk covers a June 27th article from The Atlantic by Adam Serwer titled "The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is Race Neutral," written in response to the Supreme Court's 6 to 3 TPS ruling that makes 350,000 Haitian and 6,100 Syrian legal immigrants immediately deportable.
Serwer's piece documents the Trump administration's explicitly race-based statements about Haitian immigrants, including claims they all have AIDS, eat household pets, are genetically predisposed to crime, and are poisoning the blood of the country. Samuel Alito's majority opinion declined to repeat any of those statements, substituting his own race-neutral explanations for what they might have meant instead. Justice Elena Kagan's dissent noted that the evidence was plain to see in statements the majority and even Trump's own lawyers could not bring themselves to repeat.
The article brings in legal scholars including Guy-Uriel Charles of Harvard Law, who describes the ruling as setting up an impossible burden for plaintiffs, Anderson Francois of Georgetown, who notes that the administration now needs only a plausible pretext to discriminate while Black plaintiffs need proof no amount of evidence will satisfy, and Melissa Murray of NYU, who calls this a colorblind constitution the architects of Jim Crow would love. Serwer also traces Alito's selective application of intent, showing he is perfectly willing to read racial motive into policies when white people could be perceived as the victims, as in his 2009 Ricci v. DeStefano opinion, but refuses to do so here.
#AdamSerwer #SamuelAlito #ElenaKagan #StephenMiller #JohnRoberts #DonaldTrump #TheAtlantic #TPS #TemporaryProtectedStatus #HaitianImmigrants #SupremeCourt #RacialAnimus #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #JimCrow #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #ImmigrationLaw #RaceNeutral #Hawk
Timestamps
SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK
Support on Patreon
Hawk's Merch Store
Connect on TikTok
Connect on BlueSky
Connect on Substack
Connect on Facebook
Connect on Instagram
Connect on Twitch
ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO
- Additional Content Available Here:
- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform:
Apple Podcasts
iHeartRadio
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
