TPS termination is subject to judicial review for compliance with statutory procedure and constitutional rights, but the court must defer to the executive's substantive foreign-policy determination.

Constitutional concerns with the original

1. The majority opinion treats the statutory bar on judicial review as extending to procedural APA claims, which conflicts with the original understanding that federal courts have jurisdiction over claims that an executive officer exceeded statutory authority or violated a constitutional right. See Article III, Section 2 (judicial Power extends to all Cases arising under the Laws of the United States); Marbury v. Madison (1803).
2. The majority assumes that a ban on review of 'any determination' encompasses procedural errors that themselves violate the APA's commands, effectively insulating the executive from any judicial check on whether it followed the statute's procedural requirements. This departs from the ratification-era understanding that courts may review whether an officer acted within the scope of delegated authority (see Federalist No. 78).
3. The majority's treatment of the equal protection claim as 'unlikely to succeed' on interim relief applies a heightened scrutiny test but does not consider whether the TPS program itself, which grants temporary relief based on country conditions, could be terminated in a manner that discriminates based on race. The original meaning of the Equal Protection Clause (Fourteenth Amendment) applies to the federal government through the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause (Bolling v. Sharpe, 1954) and requires that any racial classification be strictly scrutinized; the majority does not apply strict scrutiny here.

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Operative provisions

Bipartisan rationale

This textualist holding respects both Democratic priorities (preserving judicial review for procedural and constitutional claims, protecting against executive overreach) and Republican priorities (deference to executive foreign-policy judgment, limiting judicial second-guessing of substantive termination decisions, preventing indefinite TPS that Congress never intended). The solution honors the original understanding that courts police the boundaries of delegated authority but do not substitute their policy judgment for that of the political branches on matters of foreign affairs.

Constitutional citations

• → Article III, Section 2 (judicial Power extends to all Cases arising under the Laws of the United States)
• → Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 (executive Power vested in President) and Section 2 (President as Commander-in-Chief; foreign relations power)
• → Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause (incorporating equal protection principle against federal government)
• → Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) (courts must say what the law is; executive acts beyond statutory authority are void)

Article III, Section 2 Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 Amendment V