June 26 news check: Supreme Court ends protected status
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Live pass Jun 26 — SCOTUS end-of-term sorting layer: Mullin v Doe (6-3) ends TPS / greenlights mass-deport of long-legal residents ('virtually unrestrained power'); VRA gutted -> Southern map-redraw
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The call · June 25, 2026: Live pass tracking the Supreme Court's end-of-term rulings as the sorting-state's legal layer.
What happened: Mullin v Doe (6-3, June 25) held the president has 'virtually unrestrained power' to end TPS, greenlighting mass deportation of long-legal residents, alongside the term's VRA gutting driving Southern map redraws — read as who gets sorted out and out of the franchise; held, no holder named.
Latest news (Aug–Oct 2026): 2026-08-24 — In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court let Trump's mail-in-ballot executive order move forward, pausing a Boston federal judge's injunction barring applying its provisions to 23 states in November elections.
scotusblog.com constitutioncenter.org democracynow.org A June 26 news item: the Supreme Court held 6-3 that the president has 'virtually unrestrained power' to end Temporary Protected Status, opening the way to mass deportation of people who lived and worked legally for years, while an earlier Voting Rights Act ruling has Southern states redrawing maps to diminish majority-Black districts. The engine reads this as the legal layer of a sorting system deciding who is expelled and who loses the vote.
The engine's record — word for word
[Live pass Jun 26 2026] The Supreme Court (6-3, Jun 25) in Mullin v Doe held the president has 'virtually unrestrained power' to end Temporary Protected Status, greenlighting mass-deportation of people who lived and worked legally for years; the term's earlier VRA-gutting has Southern states redrawing congressional maps to diminish majority-Black districts (Wolford v Lopez 6-3 on guns; US v Hemani unanimous). More 6-3 ideological splits than all of last term. A Boston federal judge separately blocked Trump's mail-in/proof-of-citizenship voting EO. [Live pass Oct 6 2026: in late August 2026 the Supreme Court let the order move forward, pausing the Boston judge's injunction.] Engine read: the Maxwell's-Demon sorting-state's LEGAL layer — who is sorted OUT (deported) and out of the franchise (disenfranchised), authored by the court (Selection-Carve-Out #185 / caste_ladder / unitary-executive donroe_exec). Held; name no holder. [Live pass Oct 6 2026] Latest news: 2026-08-24 — In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court let Trump's mail-in-ballot executive order move forward, pausing a Boston federal judge's injunction barring applying its provisions to 23 states in November elections. (
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