Professor Johnson Talks to Reuters About High Court and Trump Immigration Actions

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to Reuters on June 2 about how the U.S. Supreme Court has supported many aspects of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans while expressing some reservations about his tactics.

"This president has been more aggressive than any in modern U.S. history to quickly remove non-citizens from the country," Johnson said, adding that no other president “has been as willing to deport non-citizens without due process.”

Reporter Andrew Chung notes that this dynamic “has forced the Supreme Court to police the contours of the administration’s actions, if less so the legality of Trump’s underlying policies.”

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.