New Delhi, June 27 -- WASHINGTON - The families of 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living under Temporary Protected Status learned Thursday that the courthouse door has been shut. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that federal judges have no power to review whether the executive branch properly ended their legal protections, stripping away the mechanism that had held deportations at bay while cases worked through lower courts.

The decision, in Mullin v. Doe (No. 25-1083), reversed injunctions that lower courts had issued against the Trump administration's effort to cancel TPS designations for both groups. With those injunctions gone and judicial review foreclosed, the Department of Homeland Security can now proceed to terminate their legal ...