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The court holds that the Syrian and Haitian nationals are not "entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation."
The Supreme Court first holds that courts cannot review the Haitian and Syrian nationals' non-constitutional claims, because the TPS statute bars judicial review.
The court next holds that the Haitian nationals' constitutional claim, that the decision to terminate TPS status for Haiti was based on racial discrimination, "will likely fail."
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(1,400 posts)The Haitian nationals' argument on the constitutional claim, Alito writes, is undermined by another one of its arguments -- "that the current administration, which has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal, simply opposes the TPS program, at least as it has been implemented in the past."
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(183,986 posts)In 2016, Trump told Haitian Americans he wanted to be the communitys biggest champion. A decade later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
Around this time a decade ago, Trump stressed the âcommon valuesâ he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the communityâs âbiggest champion.â
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-26T13:57:41.403Z
Ten years later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/supreme-court-trump-haitians-vowed-to-champion
Whether you vote for me or not, the candidate said at the time, I really want to be your biggest champion.....
And two years after that, a full decade after he stressed the common values he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the communitys biggest champion, the Republican took steps to eliminate temporary status protection for hundreds of thousands of Haitians currently living legally in the United States.
The move sparked a court fight, culminating in a predictable ruling from the high courts conservative majority. MS NOWs Jordan Rubin explained:
The Supreme Courts Republican-appointed majority sided with the Trump administration over Haitians and Syrians on Thursday in a ruling on the administrations attempt to end humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program.
Justice Samuel Alitos majority opinion curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program. For this case, the majority said that means Haitians and Syrians arent entitled to orders keeping their protections in place while their litigation proceeds, even though lower courts found serious legal problems with the administrations attempt to end their protections.
Writing for the three-member minority, Justice Elena Kagan explained that without such postponement, hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in this country will lose their legal status and work authorization and that most of them will have no legal option except to leave the country, even at the price of leaving family behind.
Kagan went on to note that hundreds of thousands of lives will be uprooted, most permanently, while this litigation to annul the Secretarys (likely illegal) termination orders proceeds.
By all appearances, the White House considers such consequences a feature, not a bug.
In her latest opinion piece for The New York Times, Kate Shaw, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, added that with the high courts ruling, the administration is now free to move forward with what immigrants rights advocates describe as the largest de-documentation in U.S. history.