Chris Geidner
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Yeah.
So, I mean, we had these efforts that from the start of the Trump administration to end temporary protected status as they came up for renewal.
And the effort was essentially put on hold by lower courts because of the way that Kristi Noem went about it.
And, but then it got up to the Supreme Court and as to Venezuela, the court had let it go forward, but they stopped it as to Haiti and Syria and said, we're gonna hear this case.
And what they decided in an opinion by Justice Alito is two important things.
First, that there's no challenge
that can be brought to the statutory, no statutory challenge that can be brought to what Kristi Noem did or to what any DHS secretary did, does.
And what that means is that you cannot say that she implemented the law improperly.
They had said that the law requires consultation with other departments, including the State Department.
And they were saying she didn't do so.
The DHS didn't do so.
It was literally a one-sentence email the same day.
And so they were saying, you violated the law.
And what Alito said is, you can't challenge that at all.
Then the second case in the Haiti case specifically, they had also raised a constitutional claim, an equal protection claim based on what we all know very well, the clear racism that was involved in the Trump administration's effort to cancel Haiti's TPS.
And honestly, most of these temporary protected status, this is,
Infamously, their eating dogs line from Trump about Springfield, Ohio and their Haitian immigrants who had moved there.
And what really an appalling decision by Alito.
He essentially wrote around it.
He refused to quote any of it and just said,
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