A federal judge is being accused of defying the U.S. Supreme Court with a pro-TPS agenda.
“Another rogue district judge just postponed the termination of TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for South Sudan,” DHS general counsel James Percival wrote on X, slamming the decision. “This is open defiance of the Supreme Court, plain and simple!”
The judge is temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s plans to end TPS protection for people from South Sudan.
That’s despite a Supreme Court ruling that significantly narrowed the circumstances when judges can do that.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris has ordered an administrative stay in the case brought by African Communities Together. She ordered continued special protections for South Sudanese nationals while she considers whether plaintiffs may amend their lawsuit and seek renewed relief.
A Fox report said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, explained Saris lacks authority to issue any relief after the Supreme Court’s recent TPS ruling.
While the judge claimed she wanted the “status quo,” that’s what she has no right to have, he said.
“No jurisdiction (as ordered by the Supreme Court) means no jurisdiction and under the applicable law, the only proper course of judicial action is to dismiss the lawsuits, explaining that based on the law and the Supreme Court’s decision, she has no jurisdiction to entertain any claims in her courtroom,” he said.
The expert said the ruling from Mullin v. Doe at the high court “reaffirmed that federal law largely bars courts from reviewing or blocking the government’s decisions to end Temporary Protected Status,” the report said.
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