The Supreme Court’s decisions on the Trump administration’s deportation policies have largely been supportive, but not definitive, Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax Sunday.

“They have been supportive generally of the power of the executive to decide who stays in the country, but what they’ve said also is if you’re going to deport people, you have to do it the right way,” Dershowitz said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”

This means deportations must be done with the use of due process, and if there is a mistake made, such as in the deportation of Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, then the administration must use their best efforts to get that person back, he added. 

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