SCOTUSBlog: Justices will hear argument on Trump administration’s removal of protected status for Syrian and Haitian nationals

Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog writes that the Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral argument on whether the Trump administration can end a program that allows several thousand Syrians and approximately 350,000 Haitians to live in the United States temporarily. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices left in place rulings by federal judges that had indefinitely postponed Temporary Protected Status for Syrian and Haitian nationals. "But the justices granted a pair of requests from the Trump administration to weigh in on the merits of the dispute over the administration’s efforts to end the TPS program for those nationals without waiting for federal appeals courts to do so first, as is the normal procedure."

The court will hear oral arguments in Noem v. Doe, the challenge to the termination of the TPS program for Syrian nationals, and Trump v. Miot, the challenge to the termination of the program for Haitian nationals, at the end of April. She states that "[a] decision in the two cases, which will be combined and treated as one for purposes of oral argument and the court’s eventual ruling, is likely to follow by late June or early July."