Overview

• The unsigned order pauses District Judge Edward Chen’s ruling from the Northern District of California that had restored protections for Venezuelan TPS holders.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moved earlier this year to terminate the designation, and DHS says the program was always intended to be temporary.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, criticizing the Court’s repeated emergency interventions.
• Press reports say roughly 300,000 to 350,000 Venezuelans now face the loss of work authorization and possible detention or deportation as implementation proceeds.
• The Court said the same result as in May applies, and the underlying challenges to DHS’s process continue on appeal, with coverage noting the order does not currently extend to Haitians’ TPS.