The Supreme Court Is Unshackling the Presidency

Ms. Shaw is a contributing Opinion writer.

We have just witnessed another example of the Supreme Court’s unshackling of the U.S. presidency. On Thursday morning the court issued a decision allowing the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of individuals from Haiti and Syria. The administration is now free to move forward with what immigrants rights advocates describe as the largest de-documentation in U.S. history.

In addition to its awful human toll, the decision allowing the T.P.S. terminations to go into effect highlights one of the more troubling mysteries of this era. Between the first and second Trump terms, why has the conservative........

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