The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. The court’s ruling came at a time of simmering tensions between the United States and Venezuela. The Supreme Court has sided with the administration in almost every case it has been called upon to review since Trump returned to the presidency in January. “This is perhaps the most extreme sign that the Supreme Court has abandoned law for politics,” Arulanantham said. Trump has made cracking down on immigration – legal and illegal – a central plank of his second term as president, and has moved to strip certain migrants of temporary legal protections, expanding the pool of possible deportees.