Supreme Court (Mullin v. Doe, 6-3) Lets Trump End Haitian and Syrian TPS, Holds Terminations Shielded from Judicial Review

On June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court, 6–3, allowed the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians, dissolving the lower-court orders that had postponed the terminations during litigation. In Mullin v. Doe (No. 25-1083, consolidated with Trump v. Miot), Justice Alito wrote for the majority that the Immigration and Nationality Act bars judicial review of non-constitutional challenges to a DHS decision to terminate a TPS designation — the courts, in this category of case, may not second-guess the Secretary. This was a signed, argued merits decision, not one of the term’s emergency shadow-docket orders. The underlying termination had been published at 90 FR 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) with an original Feb. 3, 2026 effective date, then blocked by a district court (Judge Ana Reyes) on Feb. 2, 2026 — the block this ruling removes.

The decision’s reasoning reaches beyond Haiti and Syria: TPS holders from 17+ designated countries — over a million people — now hold protection contingent on executive discretion rather than judicially enforceable rule. The Court closed the door on the statutory challenge but did not formally foreclose a constitutional (equal-protection/racial-animus) claim, while signaling it found that argument unpersuasive. In dissent, Justice Kagan (joined by Sotomayor and Jackson) wrote that the cited statements “fairly shout… that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country,” and that they were “so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”; the majority countered that none of the statements “was overtly racial.” The record before the Court included the 2024 Springfield “eating the pets” hoax (2024-09-09–vance-spreads-anti-haitian-immigrant-hoax-1757456537) and the President’s “shithole countries” remark naming Haiti — the slander that marked a community for action surfacing, years later, in the U.S. Reports.

Context / pattern. This is the merits resolution of the Haiti/Syria TPS case the administration brought to the Court in March (2026-03-11–trump-asks-supreme-court-end-haiti-tps-350000, cert granted 2026-03-16–scotus-grants-cert-haiti-syria-tps), and it extends the shadow-docket-to-merits trajectory the Court ran on Venezuelan TPS in 2025 (2025-05-19–scotus-stays-noem-v-ntpsa-venezuelan-tps-termination, 2025-10-03–scotus-stays-ntpsa-venezuelan-tps-summary-judgment) — but goes further, holding the terminations categorically unreviewable rather than merely staying relief. The DHS Secretary of record is now Markwayne Mullin (confirmed March 2026, per 2026-03-11–mullin-dhs-confirmation-hearing-march-18-scheduled), not Kristi Noem, whose Nov. 2025 notice initiated the termination. The use of immigration status as a removable, court-proof category — applied to a population already marked by a fabricated slander — fits the documented pattern of accountability-elimination and the deportation-pipeline beat; the harm lands hardest in concentrated communities like Springfield, Ohio (~12,000–15,000 Haitians), where local-organization director Vilès Dorsainvil called it “the saddest day since I’ve been here” and Gov. Mike DeWine (R) called the ruling “a mistake,” noting people “working and contributing… yesterday” were, “today,” illegal to employ. As of the ruling date no ICE enforcement operation had been executed in Springfield; the exact date work authorization ends was unresolved (the prior July 1, 2026 EAD-extension date was an artifact of the now-dissolved stay, pending a post-ruling USCIS notice).