A federal judge lifted his block on ending temporary protected status for immigrants from Ethiopia on Tuesday, meaning all of the Trump administration’s orders terminating TPS for various countries are now allowed to go into effect after the Supreme Court gave the green light earlier this summer.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, lifted an administrative order that had prevented the Department of Homeland Security from ending TPS for Ethiopia, denying an effort by activists to delay the end of the status further. Murphy had been the final judge holding out on allowing TPS to end for one of the more than a dozen countries for which the administration had axed TPS, after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that the decision to revoke TPS was unreviewable by courts in nearly all instances.
