Venezuelans, Temporary Protected Status and SCOTUS
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Disney suspended dozens of Venezuelan workers in Florida after the Supreme Court greenlit President Donald Trump’s effort to strip their legal status. The company sent emails to workers affected by the top court’s decision,
The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow against the Trump administration's attempt to send Venezuelans it says are gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, saying the detainees must have a proper chance to raise legal objections.
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor all recused themselves in the case.
A ruling allows Kristi Noem to begin deportations of 650,000 foreign nationals. Salazar directed her scorn at Justices.
The state’s attorney general had said such intervention by the justices would be unprecedented.
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"As an inferior court, we’re duty-bound to follow Supreme Court rulings—whether we agree with them or not," Judge James Ho wrote.
Late on Friday, May 16, in the case of A.A.R.P. v. Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court enjoined the Trump administration from carrying out further deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (the “Act”) of 176 Venezuelan detainees currently held in Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump Administration cannot deport Venezuelan detainees accused of being members of a gang using the wartime law, and referred the case back to a lower federal appeals court to determine if the migrants can be legally deported.
A majority of judges on the conservative-dominated court sounded skeptical about Trump’s effort to overturn the longstanding principle that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen, regardless
The US Supreme Court said Monday that it wouldn’t hear a federal case from 11 Michigan GOP legislators that relied on a legal theory the justices shot down in separate ruling nearly two years ago.
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the Court’s emergency order this week.