{"id":2596486,"date":"2026-04-29T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-tps-immigration-crackdown-faces-supreme-court-test\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:54:41","slug":"trumps-tps-immigration-crackdown-faces-supreme-court-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-tps-immigration-crackdown-faces-supreme-court-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s TPS immigration crackdown faces Supreme Court test"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-tps-immigration-crackdown-faces-supreme-court-test%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2596486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court will hear two consolidated cases-*Mullin v. Doe* and *Trump v. Moit*-in which the Trump administration seeks to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Haiti and Syria. The justices will consider whether federal law bars courts from reviewing the administration\u2019s decision to terminate TPS, and the outcome is expected to affect other efforts to end TPS for countries such as Venezuela, South Sudan, and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government, the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the Secretary of Homeland Security discretion to designate and end TPS and includes \u201cno judicial review\u201d of those determinations. Solicitor general D. John Sauer argues that lower courts improperly tried to get around that limit by scrutinizing the secretary\u2019s decision-making process,rather than the statute\u2019s review prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>In response, lawyers for affected immigrants say that allowing little or no judicial review would be reckless, effectively giving the executive broad power to act without legislative or judicial constraint. They also argue that discrimination concerns should not be insulated from review. For example, in the Haiti case, a lower court judge claimed the termination was unlawfully pretextual due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somalis-sue-over-tps-revocation-as-trump-seeks-supreme-court-help\/\" title=\"Somalis sue over ... revocation as Trump seeks ... help\">alleged racial animus<\/a>; Sauer disputes that and argues the government\u2019s actions plausibly relate to stated national-security and foreign-policy objectives.<\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court ruling allowing TPS termination for Haiti and Syria would likely resolve or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >narrow ongoing litigation challenging<\/a> other TPS revocations, giving the administration an critically important immigration win. The arguments are set for Wednesday,and the Court is expected to issue decisions on TPS and related cases by the end of June.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"203\">Supreme Court<\/a> will hear a pair of cases in which the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> is trying to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria on Wednesday, marking the latest major test to the administration\u2019s immigration agenda at the high court.<\/p>\n<p>The justices will hear oral arguments in the consolidated cases <em>Mullin v. Doe<\/em> and <em>Trump v. Moit<\/em>, where they will examine whether federal law bars review of Trump\u2019s decision to rescind TPS for people from the two countries. The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling over whether Trump may end TPS for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/haiti\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2784\">Haiti<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/syria\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"109\">Syria<\/a> will have sweeping effects on the administration\u2019s efforts to end similar temporary protections for various other countries, including Venezuela, South Sudan, and Somalia.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4542510\/appeals-court-rules-trump-asylum-ban-southern-border-illegal\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Appeals court rules Trump asylum ban at southern border is illegal<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4540980\/ice-barred-entering-homes-without-warrants-court-arrests-drop-report\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>ICE barred from entering homes without judicial warrants and court arrests drop: Report<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4540719\/only-one-person-receive-trump-gold-card-visa-lutnick\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Only one person has received Trump\u2019s \u2018Gold Card\u2019 visa, Lutnick says<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The Immigration and Nationality Act includes a provision assigning the designation and termination of TPS to the Secretary of Homeland Security\u2019s discretion, noting that \u201cthere is no judicial review of any determination\u201d made by the secretary\u00a0\u201cwith respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation.\u201d Solicitor General D. John Sauer centered his argument on the provision of the law foreclosing any sort of review of TPS termination, calling lower courts\u2019 efforts to get around that prohibition by instead reviewing the process leading to the secretary\u2019s decision as \u201cerroneous.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cCongress, in short, prescribed substantive and procedural guardrails to keep TPS designations temporary\u2014but left further accountability to the political process, not federal courts,\u201d Sauer wrote in his brief to the high court. \u201cThe last 12 months illustrate the problems with subverting Congress\u2019s choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions below disregarded the judicial-review bar to indefinitely postpone then-Secretary [Kristi] Noem\u2019s decisions to terminate TPS designations for Syria and Haiti\u2014decisions that rested on multiple foreign-policy and national-security determinations,\u201d  Sauer added. \u201cThe district courts second-guessed virtually every aspect of the Secretary\u2019s decision making, from her supposed failure to adequately consult the Department of State, to her putative misapprehension of country conditions and the national interest, to her supposedly preordaining outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Haiti TPS case, a lower court judge struck the administration\u2019s revocation of TPS for the country by alleging that racial animus displayed by Noem and President Donald Trump against Haiti made the decision unlawfully pretextual. Sauer rejected that characterization in his brief to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion that the Secretary\u2019s termination decision as to Haiti reflects unconstitutional racial animus fails under any standard of scrutiny,\u201d Sauer wrote. \u201cThe <em>Miot<\/em> district court erred in refusing to apply the <em>Trump v. Hawaii<\/em> standard, which asks whether the governmental action \u2018plausibly relate[s] to the Government\u2019s stated objective,\u2019\u2014here, the government\u2019s concerns with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-tosses-most-cases-against-trump-for-clearing-of-lafayette-park\/\" title=\"Judge Tosses Most Cases Against Trump For Clearing Of Lafayette Park\">protecting national security<\/a> and aligning TPS designations with its foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut even under a heightened standard, neither President Trump\u2019s out-of-context quotations dating back to 2017 nor Secretary Noem\u2019s statements raise any plausible inference that racial animus motivated any TPS terminations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the affected immigrants in both the Haiti and Syria TPS cases argue that removing any sort of review of how a Homeland Security secretary determines whether to extend or terminate TPS would be reckless and dangerous, alleging it \u201cwould hand the Executive unbridled power to act free of legislative or judicial constraint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the government\u2019s theory, the administration could terminate a country\u2019s TPS designation based on the flip of a coin or the Secretary\u2019s preference for a particular flavor of ice cream,\u201d lawyers for Moit said in their brief. \u201cOne might be excused for dismissing these far-fetched examples as caricature, but that is exactly what the government told the court below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither the TPS statute nor this Court\u2019s precedent allows such a naked exercise of arbitrary administrative power\u2014and certainly not when, as here, it is motivated at least in part by racially animated discriminatory intent,\u201d the brief to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gender-transitions-at-schools-poised-to-be-next-front-in-transgender-legal-war\/\" title=\"G...er transitions at schools poised to be next front in transg...er legal war\">high court reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The justices\u2019 decision in the pair of cases will either end or prolong one of the top legal sagas of the second Trump administration, as the president\u2019s agenda has been met with lawsuits in federal court at nearly every turn. The two cases the high court will hear on the revocation of TPS were scheduled for argument on an expedited timeline, with the justices taking both from emergency docket petitions.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the high court allowed the administration to end TPS for Venezuela twice via its emergency docket but did not elaborate on its decision, allowing other courts to block the revocation of TPS without technically disregarding the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling. If the Supreme Court allows the administration to end TPS for the two countries, it would likely end other lawsuits challenging the administration\u2019s decisions to end TPS for various other countries and hand the administration a key immigration win.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4544035\/john-roberts-questions-expectation-of-privacy-for-voluntarily-shared-location-data\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4544035\">JOHN ROBERTS QUESTIONS \u2018EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY\u2019 FOR VOLUNTARILY SHARED LOCATION DATA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the consolidated case at 10 a.m., shortly after the high court is expected to announce at least one opinion in one of the dozens of cases it heard arguments in earlier this term. Wednesday\u2019s session of the high court marks the final scheduled oral arguments of the current term.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the TPS case, along with all other pending cases, by the end of June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court hears cases as Trump seeks to end TPS for Haiti and Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2596487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26028746849716-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3813,32275,49417,3634],"class_list":["post-2596486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-immigration","tag-supreme-court","tag-tps","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26028746849716-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596490,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596486\/revisions\/2596490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}