Supreme Court rules Trump admin can end legal protections for Venezuelan migrants

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can strip more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants of their Temporary Protected Status. 

The Justice Department last month asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the case, which sought to overturn U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's ruling that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's decision to vacate extensions on the status for the Venezuelans exceeded her authority. 

The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 split to overturn Chen's decision, stating not much changed from when it made a similar ruling in May that allowed Noem to end protections for Venezuelan migrants whose protections expired in April, according to the Associated Press.

The high court's three liberal justices dissented and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted her conservative counterparts for "wordlessly" allowing the Trump administration to "disrupt as many lives as possible." 

“I view today’s decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” Jackson wrote. “Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.”

Temporary Protected Status is given to people from countries that are unsafe because of a natural disaster, political instability or other dangerous conditions. 

The protections are granted for six, 12 or 18 months and allow the recipient to work in the United States and prevents them from being deported.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.