The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can strip for now temporary legal protections for 500,000 individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who had been granted protection by the Biden administration. The Supreme Court’s ruling is only temporary as lower courts consider the legality of Trump’s move. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. Justice Jackson said, “The Court has now apparently determined … that it is in the public’s interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”
In other legal news, a federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration from revoking the temporary protected status of roughly 5,000 Venezuelans who are in the United States.