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Emergency application

Ending migrants’ temporary stays

Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security v. Svitlana Doe

Granted
No. 24A1079Stay applicationFiled by the federal governmentPresented to Justice JacksonFrom United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court granted the request on May 30, 2025: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case. Justice Jackson and Justice Sotomayor would have ruled the other way.

Filed Ruled 22 days after filing

What's being asked

The federal government, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, asks the Supreme Court to pause a Massachusetts district court order. The dispute concerns the government's ending temporary U.S. permission, called parole, for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan immigrants. The government says the terminations were lawful and courts cannot review them.

What the Court did

The Court put the April 15 district court order on hold, granting a stay (temporary pause) and giving the federal government emergency help. The pause continues through the First Circuit appeal and any timely request for Supreme Court review; it does not decide who wins. No vote tally was published; Justice Jackson dissented (disagreed), and Justice Sotomayor signed on to her dissent (written disagreement).

  • Dissented
  • Wrote separately
  • Vote not published
Dissenting · 2recorded against the Court's order
  1. Sotomayorjoined Jackson's writing
  2. Jacksonwrote a dissent
Vote not published · 7the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Thomas
  3. Alito
  4. Kagan
  5. Gorsuch
  6. Kavanaugh
  7. Barrett
The order records the positions of 2 of 9 justices. The Court usually does not say how each justice voted on an emergency application, so the rest are shown as not published.
Half of 82 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response came 10 to 26 days after filing, and the median was 17 days; this one was ruled on 22 days after filing.

What it means

This temporary pause does not decide whether the federal government's parole termination was lawful. The First Circuit appeal continues; the docket lists no related Supreme Court case on the main legal question and no argument date.

Separate writings

  • Justice Jackson, joined by Justice Sotomayor, dissenting

    Read (PDF)

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1079. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026