Published On 19 Sep 2025
The Department of Justice filed an urgent request on Friday asking the Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge’s decision that Kristi Noem, the country’s top immigration official, lacked the authority to end the immigrant’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
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The Justice Department argued in its filing to the court that the secretary must permit over 300, 000 Venezuelan nationals to remain in the country despite her justification that even temporarily doing so is “contrary to the national interest.”
The Supreme Court overturned a temporary order from US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco in May that had halted TPS while the case was pending in court.
Secretary Noem’s decision was deemed to be in violation of a federal law that regulates the conduct of government agencies by Chen’s final decision on September 5.
The Justice Department told the Supreme Court that “this case is well-known and involves the becoming increasingly well-known and untenable phenomenon of lower courts disregarding this court’s orders on the emergency docket.”
The lower courts and litigants are bound by this court’s rulings. It is unacceptable to disregard those orders, whether they are lengthy or just one sentence, as the lower courts did here.
In recent years, millions of people have fled Venezuela as a result of political repression and a crippling economic crisis, which were exacerbated in part by US sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Former US President Joe Biden’s administration extended TPS to about 600,000 Venezuelans through October 2026 before leaving office.
TPS, which was established by the US Congress in 1990, provides asylum to residents of the US who are facing deportation because of extraordinary circumstances like armed conflict or environmental disasters.
Source: Aljazeera
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