The Supreme Court on Friday, by a 6-3 majority, said the administration of President Donald Trump could move forward with deportation plans for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who previously had been protected under an order from Joe Biden.
And the justices got a scolding from their newest member in the process.
It was Ketanji Jackson who “rebuked” her colleagues for their “repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference” in the issue of those people who are in the United States illegally.
Reports said her “biting dissent” conflicted with the reasoned conclusion by the majority that lifted the special protections Biden granted to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Venezuela.
“I view today’s decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them,” she claimed.
“Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.” She was joined by fellow extremists Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in the dissent.
Of course, such cases would not be coming before the Supreme Court on an emergency basis had not the previous administration created the extraordinary circumstances that are being challenged. And perhaps such emergency rulings might not be as many were not lower courts less filled with leftists and activists.
According to the Daily Caller New Foundation, the judges let Trump move ahead with ending special protected status for the Venezuelans.
Edward Chen, a judge appointed by Obama, ruled last month the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan nationals violated the law.
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants. https://t.co/he9AgLErAv
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2025
BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court clears the way for the Trump admin to REVOKE Temporary Protected Status for 600K Venezuelans, paving the path for mass deportations! pic.twitter.com/RNiBMS9Qcq
— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) October 3, 2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants. https://t.co/he9AgLErAv
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2025
It was in May when the high court lifted another lower court decision that prevented the DHS from removing TPS from Venezuelan migrants.
“So long as the district court’s order is in effect, the Secretary must permit over 300,000 Venezuelan nationals to remain in the country, notwithstanding her reasoned determination that doing so even temporarily is ‘contrary to the national interest,’” the Trump administration wrote in its September application.
A commentary at the Gateway Pundijt said, “Jackson fumed in her dissent.”
The report said the ruling means some of those losing TPS ultimately could be deported.