The Trump administration argued that courts can't stop the Homeland Security Department from abruptly ending a program for Venezuelan migrants.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

From all sides, the Trump administration is stomping on the freedoms of speech, association, and the press. The courts and civic society are emerging as crucial checks against his authoritarian impulses.

A federal district judge on May 21 said the Trump administration violated his court order by removing eight migrants to South Sudan without giving them an opportunity to object. The men, who have all been convicted of serious crimes,