May 20, 2025
Big Trump Win at SCOTUS
Timothy Birdnow
You win some (and with this Court you lose some).
Justices vote 8-1 to allow Trump to revoke protected status for Venezuelan illegals.
FTA:
They couldn't just let the President do his job and run this thing; they had to leave the door open to endless legal challenges. But at least they did the right thing in this instance, more or less.
What this means is SCOTUS will be revisiting this in the not-too-distant future as lower courts issue new injunctions. This illustrates the craven nature of those currently sitting on the Court; they just kicked the can down the road.
You win some (and with this Court you lose some).
Justices vote 8-1 to allow Trump to revoke protected status for Venezuelan illegals.
FTA:
The program is a humanitarian designation under U.S. law for countries stricken by war, natural disaster or other catastrophes, giving recipients living in the United States deportation protection and access to work permits. The U.S. homeland security secretary can renew the designation.
Monday's brief order from the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, was unsigned, as is typical when it acts on an emergency request. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole justice to publicly dissent.
The court left open the door to challenges by migrants if Trump's administration tries to cancel work permits or other TPS-related documents that were issued to expire in October 2026, the end of the TPS period extended by Biden. The Department of Homeland Security has said about 348,202 Venezuelans were registered under Biden's 2023 TPS designation.
Monday's action came in a legal challenge by plaintiffs including some TPS recipients and the National TPS Alliance advocacy group.
"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. That the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking," said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of a UCLA immigration law center and one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs.
Monday's brief order from the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, was unsigned, as is typical when it acts on an emergency request. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole justice to publicly dissent.
The court left open the door to challenges by migrants if Trump's administration tries to cancel work permits or other TPS-related documents that were issued to expire in October 2026, the end of the TPS period extended by Biden. The Department of Homeland Security has said about 348,202 Venezuelans were registered under Biden's 2023 TPS designation.
Monday's action came in a legal challenge by plaintiffs including some TPS recipients and the National TPS Alliance advocacy group.
"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. That the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking," said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of a UCLA immigration law center and one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs.
They couldn't just let the President do his job and run this thing; they had to leave the door open to endless legal challenges. But at least they did the right thing in this instance, more or less.
What this means is SCOTUS will be revisiting this in the not-too-distant future as lower courts issue new injunctions. This illustrates the craven nature of those currently sitting on the Court; they just kicked the can down the road.
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