Show-Me State Times

U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) criticized Democrats during a Judiciary Committee hearing, accusing them of defending violent criminal illegal immigrants. Schmitt also directed criticism at District Judge Brian Murphy, alleging that the judge refused to comply with a Supreme Court order regarding the deportation of certain individuals.

During his remarks, Schmitt stated: “What happened yesterday, a radical liberal, progressive, leftist judge, Brian Murphy, who was confirmed in the in the lame duck session when Joe Biden, President Autopen, may not even have known he was appointing this person, approved by the Democrats in the Senate is now refusing, refusing to obey by a Supreme Court order for the deportation of seven criminal aliens….These people: one of them is a convicted arsonist, another one is an armed robber, another one is a murderer of an elderly woman, two more murderers, one is a child rapist, and another is a rapist of a person with special needs… These are the people that the Democrats spend their time defending, and now we have a judge through an act of, dare I say, insurrection, which is a word that’s thrown around here all the time, is refusing to abide by the Supreme Court’s willing to ‘say, yeah, actually, when you held up these deportations, you were wrong. We’re ordering you to allow these deportations.’ This judge, Brian Murphy, decided to cite the dissent, the dissenting opinion, and say, ‘You know what?’ I’m going to give the Supreme Court the middle finger. I don’t want to do it.”

Schmitt’s comments reflect ongoing tensions over immigration enforcement and judicial decisions related to deportation orders.