The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Friday made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a district court’s order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security from ending temporary protections for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans.

In an emergency brief, U.S. Solicitor D. John Sauer argued that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has the authority to revoke extended protections initially granted to Venezuelans under the Biden administration.

Those protections extended Temporary Protected Status to one group of Venezuelans who came to the U.S. in 2023 and another who came in 2021.

“The new order again displaces the Secretary’s judgment on a matter committed to her unreviewable discretion by law, again imp

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