President Donald Trump secured a sweeping victory at the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices voted 8–1 to lift a lower court injunction blocking his administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of migrants. The decision allows the administration to move forward with terminating Biden-era protections for roughly 300,000 Venezuelan nationals currently living in the United States. The only dissent came from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by former President Joe Biden.
The ruling overturns a March decision by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who had halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plan to revoke TPS, criticizing the move as racially motivated. The Supreme Court, however, found that the district court had overstepped its authority.
