The Supreme Court has not yet indicated whether it will take up the case for consideration.
Haiti leader says country is ‘helpless’ if United States ends TPS
Fox News Digital sat down exclusively with Leslie Voltaire, one of the nine council members from Haiti’s temporary transitional council that will soon be dissolved ahead of expected elections in the Caribbean country.
The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the “substantial” and “well-documented harms” the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.
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In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.
“Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,” Sauer said Wednesday. “This court should break that cycle.”
The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”
Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.
The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in November that the U.S. would be ending TPS protections for Haitians in the U.S., prompting a group of individuals living in the U.S. with protected status to file suit.
The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.
Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.
The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.
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D. John Sauer, nominee to be solicitor general, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as “arbitrary and capricious” and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the “overwhelming evidence of present danger” in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.
“The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,” Reyes said. “And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.'”
The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.
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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.
Nicole Kidman breaks silence on life after Keith Urban divorce
‘Scarpetta’ actress Nicole Kidman admits she was ‘in her shell’ during 2025 hiatus
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Nicole Kidman delved into her family status three months after finalizing her divorce from ex-husband, Keith Urban.
With a handful of highly-anticipated projects set to hit the silver screen, Kidman, 58, is poised to have another banner year, despite a self-imposed hiatus in 2025.
“I was quiet,” she told Variety. “I had other things going on. I was in my shell.”
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Nicole Kidman admitted she was “quiet” last year as she navigated her divorce with ex-husband Keith Urban. (James Devaney)
She added, “Now I’m in a place of saying, ‘2026. Here we go.’ I have ‘Practical Magic‘ with Sandy [Bullock]. I’ll be in full witch mode.”
The Academy Award-winning actress will reprise her role this summer as witchy sister Gillian Owens in the sequel to the ’90s cult classic flick.
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Nicole Kidman is looking forward to being in “full witch mode” in 2026. (Nino Munoz for Variety)
Kidman also stars this spring as a medical examiner in the screen adaptation of “Scarpetta,” and is currently filming season three of Taylor Sheridan’s “Lioness.”
When asked if she was “doing all right” since her separation from the country music star, Kidman admitted she’s OK and trying her best to move forward.
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“I am, because I’m always going to be moving toward what’s good,” she said. “What I’m grateful for is my family and keeping them as is and moving forward. That’s that.”
“What I’m grateful for is my family and keeping them as is and moving forward. That’s that.”— Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman is grateful for family “and keeping them as is” as she embraces being a single mother post divorce. (Nino Munoz for Variety)
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Kidman added, “Everything else I don’t discuss out of respect. I’m staying in a place of, ‘We are a family,’ and that’s what we’ll continue to be. My beautiful girls, my darlings, who are suddenly women.”
In January, the “Moulin Rouge” actress finalized her divorce from ex-husband Keith Urban after nearly 20 years of marriage.
“Everything else I don’t discuss out of respect. I’m staying in a place of, ‘We are a family,’ and that’s what we’ll continue to be. My beautiful girls, my darlings, who are suddenly women.”— Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman will star as a medical examiner in “Scarpetta,” and is also filming season three of Taylor Sheridan’s series, “Lioness.” (Nino Munoz for Variety)
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In the settlement, Kidman, 58, was assigned as the primary parent to their two minor daughters. Urban will have “parenting time” every other weekend unless otherwise stipulated.
Neither party received alimony, and child support was set at $0. The Academy Award-winning actress filed for divorce in September, citing irreconcilable differences.
