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Supreme Court allows Trump to strip Venezuelans’ temporary legal status over Jackson dissent

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19.05.2025

The Supreme Court in an emergency order on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections the Biden administration gave to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, over the public dissent of one of the court’s liberal justices.

The Trump administration in January said it would move to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans — lifting protections that bar deportation due to civil unrest and dangerous conditions in a migrant’s home country.

The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court after a San Francisco-based federal district judge put the efforts on hold, finding they “appear predicated on negative stereotypes.”

Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former President Biden’s appointee to the court, publicly dissented from........

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