Posted on 05/19/2025 9:58:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Trump administration the green light to revoke special legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.
The high court granted an emergency application filed by the administration, meaning officials can move forward with reversing a decision made at the tail end of the Biden administration to extend protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans under the federal Temporary Protected Status program.
The brief order noted that liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the application. Litigation will now continue in lower courts.
As a result of political instability in Venezuela, the Biden administration in March 2021 said Venezuelans were eligible for temporary protected status under the federal program that has existed since 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to people from countries reeling from war, natural disasters, or other catastrophes.
People accepted into the program have legal status in the United States and can get work authorization for up to 18 months, subject to extensions.
At issue before the Supreme Court was a subsequent designation made in October 2023 and extended in January just before Trump took office. It is set to expire in October 2026.
In February, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sought to unwind those determinations, meaning the protections would expire this year instead.
A judge in the Northern District of California blocked the move, citing concerns that the decision was based in part on racial animus.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the administration's emergency application that the courts could not review Noem's decision.
To hear democrats tell it, there’s political instability in the U.S. with the hostile administration attempting to establish a dictatorship. Doesn’t make sense to let anyone IN at this time.
Notice the black woman on the court who openly admitted she does not know what a woman is would have voted against it. She just had to get that little bit in the record.
OK, legal beagles, help me out here - the Supreme Court said he can do it, so why does litigation "continue" in lower courts? Any lower court proceedings should be over.
Just adios!
Justice Katanji Jackson isn’t even qualified to judge a dog show. We’ll see some strange opinions out of her in the next few years. Unfortunately they won’t be opinions based on the Constitution but on her own personal feelings.
This decision only removes the ‘protected status’.
The individual cases must now be litigated in court for due process...............
Oh, I bet she is....................😏
Once again 'Affirmative Action Jackson' tows the leftist line.
Yay!
Double yay!
All the bitching and hand wringing here
And finally a very good ruling that will matter
And only 50 replies
This room lives to frown
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