President Trump has finally gotten some good news from the Supreme Court, three justices on which he appointed and six of which are nominally conservative, with the nation’s highest court granting an emergency request from his administration, greenlighting his desire to cancel the temporary protection status granted to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
As background, the Trump Administration has been trying to yank the temporary protected status that was placed on over 500,000 illegal aliens by the Biden Administration, which used the federal Temporary Protected Status program to protect huge numbers of those illegals from deportation.
However, the Trump Administration was, as has become typical, blocked from yanking that status in the courts. Despite Biden having granted the protections under the Temporary Protected Status program at the stroke of a pen, granting them not just deportation protections but also an expedited pathway to legal status, the courts claimed that Trump could not do so with a similar penstroke.
It then challenged that in the appellate process, taking the matter all the way to the Supreme Court and demanding SCOTUS allow it to yank the status as the appeals process continues. Somewhat surprisingly, the high court granted that request and stayed the hold placed on the Trump reversal of Biden policy.
Beginning that short ruling, SCOTUS said, “The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted. The March 31, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 3:25-cv-1766, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically.”
It added, “In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. This order is without prejudice to any challenge to Secretary Noem’s February 3, 2025 vacatur notice insofar as it purports to invalidate EADs, Forms I-797, Notices of Action, and Forms I-94 issued with October 2, 2026 expiration dates. See 8 U. S. C. §1254a(d)(3).” concluding, it noted that only Biden appointee Justice Kentaji Jackson disagreed, noting, “Justice Jackson would deny the application.”
Conservatives celebrated online in the wake of the ruling. Conservative personality and podcaster Benny Johnson, for example, wrote, “🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the Trump administration to revoke legal status from 500,000+ criminal aliens flown in under the Biden regime. Now time for the deportations.”
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Trump had previously slammed the Supreme Court for its ruling that mostly blocked his use of the Alien Enemies Act. That came in a post on Truth Social in which he said, “The Supreme Court must come to the RESCUE OF AMERICA” in response to a post from Mike Davis saying, “Let’s get this straight: Obama can drone strikes Americans. But Trump can’t repel foreign terrorists. Biden can import over 10 million illegal aliens. But Trump can’t send them home without years of court process. The American people never agreed to this. Not at our founding. Not after the Civil War. Not anytime since then. Certainly not in the last election. The Supreme Court is heading down a perilous path.”