Jackson blasts SCOTUS colleagues for allowing Trump to revoke parole status for 500K immigrants
Source: Law & Crime
May 30th, 2025, 1:31 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cleared the runway for the Trump administration to begin deporting more than 500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan nationals who have been in the country on a Joe Biden-era humanitarian parole program known by the acronym CHNV.
Acting on an application for a stay, a majority of justices voted to overturn an injunction issued in April by Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a Barack Obama appointee, which barred the government from terminating parole for CHNV participants. Earlier this month, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government’s request for a stay – prompting the appeal to the nation’s high court in the case stylized as Noem v. Doe on May 8.
Writing in dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, scorned her colleagues for the decision. The dissent begins with a short summary of the factors courts look to when considering whether to stay injunctive relief. She focuses on the idea that a party seeking such relief must show “irreparable harm” – a term of art which means a problem that cannot be solved by money alone, either at the time or down the line.
“The Court has plainly botched this assessment today,” Jackson writes. “It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. And it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
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Full headline: ‘The court has plainly botched this’: Jackson blasts SCOTUS colleagues for allowing Trump to revoke parole status for 500K immigrants, fumes over ‘needless human suffering’
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