Supreme Court’s 8–1 Ruling Marks Major Win for Trump Administration
In a landmark 8–1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a significant victory to former President Donald Trump’s administration, with support even from several typically liberal justices. The ruling overturned a lower court injunction that had blocked the president from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of migrants currently living in the United States.
The decision effectively clears the way for the Trump administration to move forward with plans to end TPS protections for approximately 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, allowing for their immediate deportation under federal immigration law. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenter in the case.
During oral arguments, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer criticized the lower court’s earlier injunction, asserting that it had overstepped its authority. “The district court’s reasoning is untenable,” Sauer argued, emphasizing that TPS involves “particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch concerning immigration policy.”
The ruling also validated a February memo from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, which rescinded Venezuela’s protected status effective April 2025. The memo concluded that conditions in Venezuela had improved sufficiently to permit safe repatriation of its citizens and that maintaining the 2023 TPS designation was “against the national interest.”