President Donald Trump's administration is pushing for the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to nix temporary protected status for Syrians.
"This application marks the third time that the government has been compelled to seek a stay from this Court after lower Courts have baselessly blocked the Secretary of Homeland Security's determinations regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) just before they took effect," the filing declares.
The document notes that the high court previously issued stays amid legal wranglings pertaining to the administration's move to terminate TPS for Venezuela.
"Both times, this Court’s orders reflected that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its purely legal arguments—including that 8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(5)(A) expressly bars judicial review of direct or indirect challenges to the Secretary’s TPS determinations," the filing asserted. "And both times, the Court’s orders reflected that the government established irreparable harm and that the balance of the equities weighed in its favor."
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