The Trump administration on Friday accused lower courts of defying Supreme Court rulings as the Department of Homeland Security asked the justices to step in yet again and allow the end of a Biden-era deportation amnesty program for migrants from Venezuela.

The case has been batted around the courts for months, and the justices previously blocked a district court preliminary injunction that had ordered the president to keep the Temporary Protected Status program running.

After that high court intervention, Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee to the court in California, returned with a new ruling — this time a summary judgment — against the Trump administration, again ordering it to keep the deportation amnesty program running.

He said the high court’s previous blockade applied only to the preliminary injunction.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that amounted to “disregarding” the Supreme Court’s ruling, which had found the government was likely to prevail in the case.

He said Judge Chen’s do-over ignores that.

“The district court’s new order expressly rests on the same flawed legal grounds as its predecessor — the one this court stayed,” he said.

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