Donald Trump Administration Legal Actions

The Trump administration’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a federal injunction preserving Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians and to take the Haiti (and Syria) TPS cases immediately via an extraordinary request for certiorari before judgment, its fourth TPS stay bid after prior Venezuela requests and with one Syria application still pending. A divided D.C. Circuit refused to stay the injunction—two Democratic appointees citing well‑documented harms to Haitians and a Trump‑appointed judge dissenting on executive‑power grounds—while Judge Ana Reyes stressed that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem retains First Amendment rights but is constrained by the Administrative Procedure Act; Haitian TPS holders have been invited to respond, and the move comes amid related efforts to end TPS for other countries such as Somalia, which is set to lapse for about 1,080 people and has prompted litigation alleging racial and national‑origin animus.