Karoline Leavitt primed unthinkable action after Sonia Sotomayor's warning: analyst

MSNBC’S Jordan Rubin delivered a message to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt after she floated the startling suggestion that the U.S. government could potentially deport American citizens who are “violent” repeat offenders “if it’s legal.”

“It’s not,” the legal analyst Rubin clapped back. “But that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.”

Rubin on Wednesday flagged Leavitt’s comments she made at a daily news briefing this week for readers of his MSNBC legal blog – which the former...