Andrew Arthur
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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It's used all the time in many different statutory provisions.
It's used all the time by this Court.
If we apply ordinary meaning of that term here, I really don't understand how you can prevail.
What this comes down to is this is a temporary protection.
The word temporary appears 42 different times in the statute.
And yet, immigrants advocates have managed to turn it into a quasi-permanent form of protection by challenging every determination that the Trump administration has made attempting to end temporary protected status regardless of the country.
You know, this is a pretty straightforward statute.
Congress plainly intended that there wouldn't be any judicial review.
And unfortunately, it's reflective of the highly politicized times in which we live that district court judges think that they have the ability, let alone the obligation, to interpose themselves in political decisions that Congress has placed outside of their jurisdictions.
They're going back to statements that President Trump has made in the past, denigrating statements about Haiti generally, in order to say that improper racial animus has weighed into this decision.
But the argument basically goes as follows.
One, the president has said that Haiti is a bad place.
TPS is based upon the idea that Haiti is temporarily a bad place.
And therefore, it almost defeats their argument to bring up the fact that the president has talked about issues in Haiti.
So, you know, it may almost be too cute by half to make the argument, but in the public sphere, it's probably the most compelling argument that they could make.
I just don't think it's a valid one.
One of the issues that the Roberts Court has contended with as long as Donald Trump has been president is immigrants' advocates who have used the courts as a way to stymie the president's political decisions.
And I think that the Roberts Court wants to send a message to the inferior courts, the district and the circuit courts,
that when congress says there is no review or that certain things aren't reviewable or aren't reviewable at the district court level that congress means what it says so that the supreme court doesn't have to continually return to the issue to you know tell uh inferior courts that they don't have jurisdiction or that they've gone too far this court wants to get itself out of political questions
We can get working on that.
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