1 of 3 | A person rides a motorcycle through street fires, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 1, 2024, a day after gang violence left at least five dead and twenty injured. File Photo by Johnson Sabin/EPA-EFE
July 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian refugees is outside the reach of federal courts.
The high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines last month that the judicial branch cannot weigh in on claims of unlawfulness against the executive branch for making changes to TPS. The courts may only interject on matters of TPS if they are challenged on constitutional grounds.
Megan Hauptman, a litigation staff attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project, was one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs challenging the end of TPS for Haitian and Syrian refugees. She explained that the ruling greatly limits paths of recourse against the executive branch for removing protected status from refugees of any nationality.
"The Supreme Court reached a much broader ruling that courts in general have no power to review non-constitutional challenges or non-constitutional litigation challenging a TPS termination as unlawful, on the basis that the court doesn't have jurisdiction over those types of claims," Hauptman told UPI.
