The Supreme Court has temporarily lifted a block on the Trump administration’s attempt to remove protected status for Venezuelan migrants, opening the door to deportations.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the administration’s request to halt the lower court block.
The decision on Oct. 3 followed a similar decision by the court in May and came after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had weighed in on the issue.
“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not,” the court said. “The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.”…