Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson lead an intense round of questioning toward Solicitor General D. John Sauer over President Donald Trump’s remarks about Haiti, during oral arguments Wednesday in a case over the president’s bid to end Temporary Protected Status for the country.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the consolidated case Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Moit, where the justices were asked to determine whether federal law bars review of Trump’s decision to rescind TPS for people from Haiti and Syria. In the Haiti case, a lower court judge struck the administration’s revocation of TPS for the country by alleging that racial animus displayed by then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump against Haiti rendered the decision unlawfully pretextual. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson grilled Sauer early in the arguments on those comments.
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