If you could name one thing that would be most likely to send Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson into a rage…
It might be exactly what the Supreme Court did today.
The high court just agreed — AGAIN — with the Trump Administration.
That alone might be enough to raise Ketanji’s hackles, but the meat of today’s ruling is what really had the court’s junior-most member furiously penning one of her famed solo dissent pieces.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court voted to once again grant the Trump Administration’s emergency request which CHECKED a lower court judge from curtailing President Trump’s immigration reform.
In short, President Trump can go ahead and REVOKE the ‘legal status’ granted to hundreds of thousands of migrants by the Biden Administration.
And many of them will then instantly become candidates for deportation, simply because a ton of them came here ILLEGALLY to begin with!
Only AFTERWARD granted a certain form of ‘legal’ status by Biden!
That decision was reported earlier this afternoon by NBC News which highlighted the sheer volume of migrant cases impacted:
Those effected by this ruling were not merely the lucky recipients of the unwatchful eye of the Biden regime.
They were at the least allowed in, and at the worst BROUGHT IN, under the complicit auspices of the Biden Administration.
Shockingly, the ‘legal’ immigration status for the individuals in question had nothing to do with vetting or the legality — or the LACK of legality — by which most of them entered the country.
It was simply a blanket designation put in place and applied to a large group of illegals which included Venezuelans… on behalf of the Biden Administration.
And today’s Supreme Court ruling opened even wider President Trump’s ability to CHANGE that ‘legal’ status, according to this report from NBC News:
The Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, meaning some could ultimately be deported.
The court granted an emergency request filed by the Trump administration seeking to block a judge’s ruling that said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem failed to follow the correct process in revoking Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in May granted an earlier emergency request filed by the Trump administration in the same case.
The latest filing came after California-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen on Sept. 5 again ruled against the administration, this time in the form of a final decision rather than a preliminary one.
“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here,” the court order said.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented.
One of them, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote a dissenting opinion criticizing the court for once again granting an emergency request filed by the Trump administration, as it has done in 20 other cases.
As that story highlighted, Ketanji Brown Jackson is not a happy camper at the moment.
We’ll get to her angry dissenting opinion piece momentarily…
But I want to give a little credit to at least the 6 Justices who exhibited a basic understanding of their Constitutional authority to mitigate if need be the decisions of lower courts.
Check out this clip put out by the Heritage Foundation just this afternoon explaining the inherent difference between the power wielded by SCOTUS versus the lower courts, stemming from their different means of creation:
So even though Ketanji Brown Jackson and her liberal compatriots on the bench are infuriated by their own court’s willingness to side with President Trump on issues that fly in the face of her woke social agenda…
The clear-cut Constitutionally derived preeminence of the Supreme Court over ANY OTHER COURT — is not even up for debate.
That, however, has never stopped Ketanji from debating in the face of clear-cut reality.
And it didn’t in this instance, either.
But I have to point out that this was a follow-up SECONDARY ruling on exactly the same issue, requested by the Trump Administration, because the lower court essentially refused to change their ruling after the Supreme Court put them in their place!
Here’s a clip from Fox News in May, when the FIRST Supreme Court ruling came down saying essentially the same thing:
But, as I said, that hasn’t stopped Ketanji from digging in her heels, and it didn’t stop her this time.
She responded to today’s REPEAT RULLING by penning a heated dissenting opinion — all her own — as reported by CNN:
While all three liberal justices noted their disagreement with the decision, only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote an opinion explaining her position. As she has in past emergency orders, Jackson criticized the way the court handled the case, saying the court was allowing the administration to “disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.”
Jackson said she viewed the decision “as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket.”
The Biden administration first granted TPS for Venezuelans in March 2021, citing the increased instability in the country, and expanded it in 2023. Two weeks before Trump took office, the Biden administration renewed protections for an additional 18 months.
In his decision earlier this year, US District Judge Edward Chen described Venezuela as “a country so rife with economic and political upheaval and danger that the State Department” has warned against travel there “‘due to the high risk of wrongful detentions, terrorism, kidnapping, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, poor health infrastructure.’”
Chen was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama.
The challengers, Venezuelan migrants covered under TPS, contended that Noem’s abrupt reversal of the protections violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which mandates specific procedures for federal agencies when implementing policy changes. They also had argued that Noem’s decision was motivated by racial and political bias. (Emphasis Added.)
The fact that foreigners granted TPS (Temporary Protected Status) under Biden are now attempting to hang on to that status by appealing to US law…
And simultaneously infusing the situation with emotion by playing the RACE CARD…
Is a good indication that these migrants are playing the role they were in fact brought here to play.
Ketanji and these citizens of foreign nations may not understand the meaning of the word ‘temporary’ as it appears in the acronym TPS — but thankfully the Supreme Court did during today’s ruling.
And for his part, District Court Judge Chen, whose ruling attempted to submit the authority of the Presidency beneath the feet of the lower court, still hasn’t acquiesced to that ruling in May which put his decision on ice.
It remains to be seen if today’s ruling will sufficiently prod the lower court into rescinding it’s lawless decision.
It does NOT, however, remain to be seen if Ketanji Brown Jackson will recognize the error of her unconstitutional ways.
That ship has sailed long ago — and the only way to set it right again… would be to return it to the harbor from whence it came.
Somewhere — ANYWHERE — besides the Supreme Court of the United States.
She consistently sides with those Congressionally created LOWER courts; maybe she’d be more happy sitting on one of those benches, instead?
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