The Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the executive branch to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations.
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Bulwark TakesAug 29, 2026
The Supreme Court's June 25, 2026 ruling in Mullin v. Doe allowed the Trump administration to terminate TPS designations for Haiti and Syria and held that the TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional challenges. The post's characterization of the ruling as 'the most lawless possible way' is opinion and is not graded; the extracted claim itself matches the sources.
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… I think the people who've had it officially stripped from them is where you get the million number from, and it's mostly people who had Temporary Protected Status. That's a that's a status that the federal government can give it and taketh away, and the Supreme Court basically just blessed Donald Trump being able to take it away in the most lawless possible way. Like, they could have done it slowly and deliberately, and it would have been bulletproof, but instead they did it sloppily and quickly, and the Supreme Court said, Yeah, that's fine. …
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Supports. Reuters and ABC News report that the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling on June 25, 2026, cleared the way for the Trump administration to end TPS protections for Haitians and Syrians.[1][5]
Supports. The Supreme Court's opinion holds that the TPS statute's judicial-review bar applies to all non-constitutional claims, so the termination decisions are not subject to such review.[3][6]
Supports. The Library of Congress CRS product states that the Court's ruling allows DHS to proceed with terminating TPS designations for Haiti and Syria that had been stayed by lower courts.[4]
Supports. AP reports that the decision overturns lower court orders and allows DHS to swiftly end TPS, which the ruling's coverage describes as protecting about 1.3 million people from 17 countries.[2]
Context. The ruling preserved constitutional challenges to TPS terminations, so courts can still hear those claims, which narrows the scope of the 'can't be challenged in the courts' framing in the post.[6][7]
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7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Supreme Court gives Trump key immigration winsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 325-1083 Mullin v. Doe (06/25/2026)supremecourt.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Mullin v. Doe: Supreme Court Allows Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syriacongress.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5Supreme Court allows cancellation of TPS for Haitians, Syrians, as attorneys warn of impact on thousandsabcnews.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Mullin v. Doe, 609 U.S. ___ (2026)supreme.justia.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 7Inside the fights to maintain TPS status for thousands after the Supreme Court sided with Trumpus.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: context
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