{"id":4679,"date":"2026-06-25T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/06\/25\/supreme-court-conservatives-accused-of-advancing-white-supremacist-agenda\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:21:08","slug":"supreme-court-conservatives-accused-of-advancing-white-supremacist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4679","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court conservatives accused of advancing \u2018white-supremacist agenda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-14sl0e4\">\n<div class=\"dcr-17l77cs\">\n<figure id=\"6194c7b9-8eab-45d8-919d-4b892d6ed00c\" class=\"dcr-191xnya\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"people hold signs that read 'protect TPS now' and 'keep families safe. keep TPS.'\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a97688fd96d43da56bf2cee596d5443f6784fe00\/0_0_7191_4794\/master\/7191.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"310\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><span class=\"dcr-kogzpx\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-18mnkpm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1294qmb\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-4sl2vt\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1mfxiaj\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">TPS holders, union leaders and activists protest outside the supreme court in April.<\/span> Photograph: Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"6194c7b9-8eab-45d8-919d-4b892d6ed00c\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-qda0hp\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1e9iiy9\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">TPS holders, union leaders and activists protest outside the supreme court in April.<\/span> Photograph: Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-ql9l8l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6mja0y\">\n<h1 class=\"dcr-l0wuod\">Supreme court conservatives accused of advancing \u2018white-supremacist agenda\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-1xpojbf\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1gm5ptv\">\n<p>Lawmakers and advocates condemn \u2018disastrous\u2019 decisions that allow Trump officials to strip away migrant protections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-x1al2c\">\n<div class=\"dcr-11gq2tx\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1w2vkyc\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-ogvvui\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Lawmakers and immigration advocacy groups on Thursday sharply denounced two US supreme court rulings that allowed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Trump administration<\/a> to strip certain immigration protections and fundamentally reshape the asylum system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Dozens of groups, advocates and members of Congress called the court\u2019s decisions \u201cdisastrous\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d, while the Trump administration, Republican lawmakers and anti-immigrant groups celebrated the rulings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"56fbb4af-95c8-4015-bb19-4835cead3786\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-1oq85qr\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-2 | 2\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1rx5ky9\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-15vltj4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/25\/supreme-court-haitians-syrians-temporary-protected-status\" class=\"dcr-f35c0u\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-vvxpdt\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6z6e7\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zh9rih\">US supreme court allows Trump administration to strip Haitians and Syrians of protected status<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-oj13vq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-ef9nua\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cToday, Trump\u2019s loyalists in the supreme court have joined forces with him to deny immigrants\u2019 internationally recognized human rights and advance an authoritarian, white-supremacist agenda at home,\u201d said the Illinois congresswoman Delia Ramirez, a Democrat. \u201cThe supreme court\u2019s decisions put more than 350,000 TPS holders at risk of deportation and countless more asylum seekers\u2019 lives in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One of Thursday\u2019s rulings from the supreme court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/25\/supreme-court-haitians-syrians-temporary-protected-status\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">stripped away<\/a> temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians, who were living and working legally in the US and were protected from deportation. The TPS policy allows immigrants from specific countries to live and work in the US without the threat of deportation, due to violent or unstable conditions in their countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Despite the state department currently warning against traveling to Haiti or Syria, citing violence, Haitians and Syrians in the US on TPS are now vulnerable to deportation, even if they have applications for other forms of immigration status in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cSimply put, the supreme court\u2019s ruling will directly result in thousands of innocent people dying violent, needless deaths,\u201d said attorneys Geoff Pipoly and Andy Tauber in a statement, who represented Haitians before the supreme court in the TPS case. \u201cThis decision will endanger Haitian TPS holders who fled their homeland in pursuit of what generations of immigrants yearned for when they made the painful decision to leave all they have known: to live in safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A number of Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/2070174120789110923\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">senators<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepJayapal\/status\/2070173629724176849\/photo\/1\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">representatives<\/a> \u2013\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lawler4ny\/status\/2070160497731649792\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">even one Republican<\/a> \u2013 agreed, adding that the 6-3 ruling on TPS will place hundreds of thousands at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">People with TPS have permission to live and work in the US because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deemed their home countries to be unsafe. The Trump administration has attempted to slash the program for various countries in its anti-immigrant crusade. Last year, the supreme court allowed the Trump administration to strip TPS for more than 300,000 Venezuelans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Now, analysts fear that this decision may open the door to further cut TPS for all countries, in what would be the biggest de-documentation move in US history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe supreme court has opened the door to the president\u2019s broader effort to dismantle TPS for all 1.3 million holders,\u201d said Insha Rahman, president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice. \u201cThis ruling underscores a troubling reality: too many immigrants in the United States, who have spent years contributing to their communities, remain trapped in temporary statuses that can be revoked at the whim of political agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Andrea Flores, an immigration expert and former director of border management on the national security council under the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arosaflores\/status\/2070155973021302829\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">called<\/a> Thursday\u2019s TPS decision \u201cthe biggest delegalization moment in modern history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Some groups decried the potential effects of the TPS decision on the US economy. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/temporary-protected-status-us-economy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">report<\/a> from earlier this year showed TPS holders contribute about $29bn every year to the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Similarly, the court\u2019s other immigration-related decision on Thursday has allowed the Trump administration to fundamentally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/25\/supreme-court-ruling-asylum-seekers-us-mexico-border\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">reshape asylum<\/a> policy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-mexico-borde\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US-Mexico border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In a 6-3 decision, where the conservative majority on the nine-judge bench prevailed, the supreme court ruled that US government officials can turn back asylum seekers at the southern border \u2013 allowing officials to physically and indefinitely block people from requesting asylum in the US. The court ruled that US border officials do not have to accept any asylum claims from migrants who have not actually reached US soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Immigrant rights organizations, which originally filed a lawsuit in 2017 during the first Trump administration, argued that the US government was violating federal law by turning back asylum seekers at points of entry, a now-defunct policy dubbed \u201cmetering\u201d. Migrants turned back were left in dangerous conditions in Mexico. The Biden administration rescinded that policy and it has not been in effect. But the current Trump administration asked the supreme court to overturn a previous court decision declaring the policy unlawful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe believe that today\u2019s ruling violates international law,\u201d said Erika Pinheiro, Al Otro Lado\u2019s executive director. Al Otro Lado was the main organization that pursued the end to the metering policy. \u201cThis decision has destroyed the United States\u2019 position as a global leader in promoting the rights of refugees and threatens to serve as a dangerous justification for other countries that unlawfully prevent refugees from crossing borders in search of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIn a world of increasing conflict and climate disaster, this hardening of borders to keep out the most vulnerable is sure to result in many more lives lost,\u201d Pinheiro added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"0b58050a-70cc-4df7-ab12-4a18e2b81f7e\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-1oq85qr\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-18 | 18\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1rx5ky9\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-15vltj4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/23\/trump-crackdown-tps-immigration\" class=\"dcr-f35c0u\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-vvxpdt\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6z6e7\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zh9rih\">\u2018Devastating\u2019: lives of nurses and patients upended by Trump migrant crackdown<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-oj13vq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-ef9nua\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Although organizations argued that the metering policy violated federal law, including the refugee convention, the supreme court ruled border officials could deny asylum to people who had not entered the US, but arrived at the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThis ruling should sound the alarm for anyone who cares about human rights and the rule of law,\u201d said Melissa Crow, director of litigation at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. Crow said that the court\u2019s decision suggests \u201cthe president may unilaterally override decades of established law and trample on people\u2019s legal rights if doing so suits his political agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe turn-back policy did not merely delay entry for people seeking safety. For far too many asylum seekers, the policy denied entry entirely. 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