Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks the Supreme Court “botched” a decision to allow the Trump administration to revoke the Temporary Protected Status protections of about 500,000 Haitian, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan immigrants. Jackson and fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor were the only two dissenters. “The Court has plainly botched this assessment today.

It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm,” Jackson wrote in the dissent. “And it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives of and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.” Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement TPS is a long-standing program that allowed those 500,000 immigrants to stay in the U.S. after they fled violence and risk in their home countries. After the Supreme Court’s ruling, all of them are at high risk of sudden deportation.

“It is apparent that the government seeks a stay to enable it to inflict maximum predecision damage,” Jackson wrote. Read the full dissent here.