Trump's winning streak at Supreme Court could end as birthright decision looms

President Donald Trump‘s immigration agenda has notched several key wins as the Supreme Court‘s term draws to a close, but a key loss appears imminent on one of the high court’s final opinion days.The Supreme Court is wrapping up its 2025-26 term with likely two opinion days beginning Monday, when the justices will issue opinions in the eight outstanding cases, including many of the most closely watched disputes argued before the high court this year.Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order will be one of those decisions, and it could give the president a key loss a week after the Supreme Court handed him three major immigration wins.

‘Temporary’ means temporary, Supreme Court says

On Thursday, the high court released two major opinions in immigration cases that help Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda. In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria, and ruled that the determination to end TPS by the homeland security secretary cannot be legally challenged. The ruling penned by Justice Samuel Alito opens the door for the administration to end TPS for people from various other countries, allowing the status to be stripped by the administration from the more than 1 million foreign nationals estimated to have TPS.While TPS was intended by Congress to be a temporary humanitarian protection, various TPS designations have been endlessly extended by previous administrations, lasting decades in some cases.The Trump administration has aggressively attempted to end TPS for most of the countries that currently have it, arguing the emergencies or circumstances that triggered the designations are no longer severe enough to warrant the deportation protections and that the indefinite extensions have become a form of blanket amnesty that runs counter to the purpose of the program. The Supreme Court’s ruling clears the way for the administration to end TPS without the intensive legal pushback that has plagued it for over a year.Reining in asylum claims