The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States. The Supreme Court stayed a September 5, 2025, U.S. district court order pending the disposition of the government’s appeal in the Ninth Circuit and of a petition for a writ of certiorari. The unsigned opinion stated, “Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, calling the decision “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket.” She said, “This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them.”
