The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to scrap temporary deportation protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants .

In their latest emergency order , the justices on the high court paused Obama-appointed District Judge Edward Chen’s September ruling that the Trump administration wrongly terminated an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for migrants from Venezuela.

Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the majority in the unsigned order. 3

“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not,” the court wrote .

“The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here,” the opinion continued, referring to an e

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