The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday that could decide whether hundreds of thousands of immigrants will lose deportation protections.
Justices from the court’s conservative majority seemed skeptical that lower courts had the authority to stop the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians.
The justices’ decision, expected to come at the end of the term in June, would have direct repercussions for more than 330,000 Haitians and nearly 3,900 Syrians legally authorized to live and work in the U.S. through TPS. But it would also affect how courts consider the program as a whole, which the Trump administration has sought to scale back in his second term.