Supreme Court allows Trump to nix temporary status for Venezuelan migrants
Key Takeaways
- The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
- The court's conservative majority granted a request to put on hold a lower court ruling that had protected the migrants' status during litigation.
- Migrant advocates reported that some individuals have already lost jobs, homes, or faced deportation following the Supreme Court's initial intervention in May.
- Liberal justices dissented, with Justice Jackson strongly criticizing the ruling as an improper use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket.
- The underlying litigation involves a district judge's finding that the administration's move to terminate TPS violated federal law and included discriminatory remarks.
The United States Supreme Court has once again paved the way for the Trump administration to end the temporary legal protection, known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS), for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the court's conservative majority granted the administration's plea to suspend a ruling by a district judge who found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority to terminate the status granted under the Biden administration. This action follows a similar Supreme Court intervention in May, leading the conservative majority to state that the same result was appropriate in this instance. Lawyers representing the migrants informed the court that some individuals have already suffered job loss, homelessness, detention, and deportation as a result of the justices' prior involvement. The court's three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizing the decision as a "grave misuse of our emergency docket" and harmful interference in lower court cases. The original district judge had previously ruled that Noem's attempt to end TPS violated federal law and cited her "discriminatory statements" against the Venezuelan population.
