The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s request to end temporary legal protections the Biden administration extended for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. 

It marks the second time the justices have intervened on their emergency docket to lift a ruling from U.S. District Judge Edward Chen keeping the protections in place. 

“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here,” the court’s unsigned order reads. 

The ruling appeared to fall along the court’s 6-3 ideological lines, though the justices don’t have to disclose their votes in emergency cases. 

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan both publicly dissented but did not explain their reasoning. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the most junior of the three liberal justices, in a solo dissent called it a “grave misuse of our emergency docket.” 

“We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible,” Jackson wrote. 

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