The DC Judge Trump Beat at SCOTUS Just Forced Another Haitian Work Permit Retreat

The Supreme Court handed Trump a 6-3 win to end protections for 350,000 Haitians last month.

One Washington judge is still finding ways to slow that win down.

DHS was just forced to cave to that judge for the second time in two weeks.

Judge Ana Reyes's Stay Order Still Controls Haitian Work Permits

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion in Mullin v. Doe on June 25.

The ruling said federal courts have no business second-guessing Homeland Security's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria.

Six justices agreed the law was plain and left no room for judges to override it.

Three liberal justices dissented and lost anyway.

That should have been the end of it.

Instead, a single district judge named Ana Reyes is still standing in the way.

Reyes issued an order back in February blocking Haiti's TPS termination before the Supreme Court ever weighed in.

She had ruled that racial bias infected the decision to end Haiti's status, pointing to past comments from senior officials that she said demeaned Haitian immigrants.

DHS pushed back immediately, posting an alert that said flatly the agency vehemently disagrees with this order.

Tricia McLaughlin, the department's spokeswoman, went further, insisting the program does exactly what its name says and that the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench.

The Supreme Court sided with DHS, not Reyes, and reversed her equal protection theory outright months later.

But her original order hasn't been formally lifted yet, and DHS says it still has to follow it while the case works its way back through her courtroom.

Haiti's TPS designation has survived multiple termination attempts dating back to 2018, each one tangled up in the same kind of district court litigation.

Every time Washington tries to close a program that was supposed to be temporary, a different judge finds a new reason to keep it open a little longer.

DHS Has Now Extended Haitian Work Permits Twice Since Winning at the Supreme Court

USCIS issued its first stopgap extension on July 1, pushing Haitian work permits from their original expiration date to July 10.

That deadline arrived Friday and DHS extended it again, this time to July 24.

Close to 200 Haitian TPS holders working at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport alone were bracing to lose their jobs Friday.

Instead they're back at work for two more weeks while Reyes's court works out how to comply with a ruling she already lost.

Two extensions in two weeks isn't stability, it's a countdown clock that keeps getting reset because one judge hasn't caught up with the Supreme Court.

Airport unions, hospitals, hotels, and airlines across South Florida are the ones rebuilding staffing plans every time that clock resets, and none of them get a vote in when Reyes decides to comply.

This Is What Losing at the Supreme Court Looks Like When You Refuse to Lose

The thing that fires me up most about this story is how casually the system tolerates a district judge ignoring a 6-3 Supreme Court loss for five straight weeks.

Reyes isn't reviewing new evidence or hearing fresh arguments.

She's sitting on a case the nation's highest court already resolved, while Haitian TPS holders keep getting extension notices instead of the finality Congress wrote into the law back in 1990.

Mullin v. Doe didn't just green light Haiti's termination.

It confirmed that judges like Reyes were never supposed to have veto power over Homeland Security's country assessments in the first place.

The 350,000 Haitians affected aren't the only people watching.

Roughly 1.3 million TPS holders from 17 other countries are watching too, because Reyes's slow walk is the same playbook activist judges have used against Trump's border policy, his agency reorganizations, and his deportation flights, just with a different judge holding the pen.

Mullin v. Doe was supposed to close that playbook for good.

Instead, one judge in Washington is deciding for herself when compliance is convenient, and every other country still fighting to keep its own TPS designation is taking notes.

Sources:

• Jim Hoft, "Trump Administration Grants Two-Week Extension to Haitian TPS Holders in South Florida," The Gateway Pundit, July 13, 2026.
• Department of Homeland Security, "DHS Issues Statement Following Multiple Supreme Court Wins," DHS.gov, June 25, 2026.
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "Update on Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti," USCIS.gov, July 10, 2026.
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "Temporary Protected Status Designated Country: Haiti," USCIS.gov, alert updated February 2026.
• Newsmax, "TPS Haiti Work Authorization Extended to July 24," Newsmax, July 13, 2026.
• Supreme Court of the United States, Mullin v. Doe, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), June 25, 2026.
• Tricia McLaughlin (DHS spokeswoman), quoted in "Late Minute Reprieve: Court Halts Haiti TPS Termination," Seyfarth Shaw LLP, February 3, 2026.