Lobbies, Liberals Ask SCOTUS to Override Trump’s Haiti Policy

Pro-migration advocates want the Supreme Court to override Congress’s Temporary Protected Status law, President Donald Trump’s top lawyer told the nine judges today.

“I do think it’s helpful to …[study] their prayer for relief],” Solicitor General John Sauer told the judges as he summarized the advocates’ legal request that Trump be blocked from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants:

[It] says “We are challenging the termination decision as to these two countries [Haiti and Syria], we are saying that that termination decision was unlawful, it should be declared unlawful, [and] it should be set aside under the APA [Administrative Procedures Act, and] it should be postponed under Section 705 [of the APA],” and I think at that point, at a very high level, we are looking at a request for judicial review of the determination, and that is exactly what the statute bars.

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