Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor opposed the decision.
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.”
In a dissent, Jackson criticized her colleagues’ decision.
“We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible,” she said.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
By Sam Dorman
