The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a win Monday by vacating a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court that had preserved Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for individuals from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador. In a 2-1 decision, the court found the lower court judge acted outside of the court's authority when it sided with plaintiffs who argued the administration's decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The plaintiffs claimed that President Trump and others influenced the decision with bigoted beliefs, but the Ninth Circuit ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support this. NINTH CIRCUIT COURT SUSPENDS OWN ORDER THAT BLOCKED 'REMAIN-IN-MEXICO' POLICY"The district court found that the DHS secretaries were influenced by President Trump and/or the White House in their TPS decision-making, and that President Trump had expressed animus against non-White, non-European immigrants. TPS status is granted to countries facing armed conflict, natural disasters or other types of "extraordinary and temporary conditions in the foreign state."

Source: Fox News September 14, 2020 19:30 UTC