The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump may proceed with plans to end temporary deportation protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S.
The big picture: This marks the second time the Supreme Court has granted approval for the administration to remove the Biden-era extension of Temporary Protected Status, which shields people from deportation when their home countries face crisis.
What they're saying: "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not," the court order said. "The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here."
Catch up quick: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced earlier this year that the administration would terminate TPS for Venezuelans.
- The Supreme Court first accepted an emergency request in May, allowing the administration to strip protections while legal proceedings continued.
- After granting another emergency request from the administration, Justices paused California-based District Judge Edward Chen's ruling that blocked the administration's TPS rollback.
- The administration argued that the case reflected "the increasingly familiar and untenable phenomenon of lower courts disregarding this Court's orders on the emergency docket."
The other side: All three liberal justices dissented on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publishing a dissenting opinion.
- Jackson condemned the court for repeatedly accepting emergency requests from the administration, writing, "I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent."
Flashback: Congress created TPS in 1990 to safeguard migrants from war, natural disasters and other dangerous conditions that made it impossible to return to their country of origin.
- President Biden approved TPS for Venezuelans in 2021 and extended protections in 2023 due to humanitarian concerns and political instability.
- Before the start of Trump's second term, the Biden administration renewed TPS for another 18 months.
Axios Explains: The past and present of Temporary Protected Status
