OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:27 PM – Monday, May 19, 2025
Despite the loud disagreement from one of the court’s liberal justices, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order on Monday allowing the Trump administration to remove legal protections provided by the Biden administration to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.
In January, the Trump administration announced that it would remove Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, abolishing certain Democrat-led “safeguards” that prevent deportation due to civil turmoil and other violence in the foreigner’s home country.
The Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court after an “activist” federal district judge in San Francisco halted the initiative, claiming that it “appears predicated on negative stereotypes.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed by former Democrat President Joe Biden, was the sole dissenter from the Court’s order on Monday to overturn the district judge’s injunction. Neither the majority nor Justice Jackson provided a written explanation for their respective positions.
The decision represents yet another notable legal victory for the Trump administration, which has frequently turned to the Supreme Court with emergency appeals following nationwide injunctions against its policies by lower federal courts.
Additionally, last week, tens of thousands of Afghans living in the United States discovered that they would soon be deported following the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for all Afghan refugees on Monday — being announced by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
“For decades, Secretaries across administrations have accordingly terminated TPS designations when, in their judgment, the statutory conditions no longer warrant them. That is exactly what Secretary Noem did here,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote to the justices.
Meanwhile, as of May 19, 2025, the high court has not issued a final ruling on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal aliens or temporary visa holders. The Court heard oral arguments on May 15, 2025, and a decision is expected in the coming months.
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