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Musk vs. Altman, and a Pivotal Immigration Case at the Supreme Court

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Wednesday, April 29th. Here's what we're covering.

0:14.2

Today is the last day of arguments this term at the Supreme Court and the justices are set to consider a pair of cases that they fast-tracked

0:22.4

to get on the schedule. The cases both center on temporary protected status or TPS, a decades-old

0:30.1

legal protection that has allowed migrants from countries facing war or other humanitarian crises

0:35.3

to live and work in the U.S. President Trump, though, has moved to

0:39.5

revoke those protections immediately for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians and to expel

0:45.7

them from the country. TPS holders, including students, doctors and engineers, have pushed back

0:52.1

in the courts, saying they could be killed if they're forced to

0:55.0

return. The arguments the justices will hear today will focus on how and why the administration

1:01.0

tried to revoke their status. By law, the government must review conditions in the countries

1:07.0

in question before making a decision, among other steps. Lawyers representing the TPS holders

1:12.5

say that didn't happen here, and they argue that in the case of the Haitians specifically,

1:17.8

the administration acted with racial bias. They've pointed to Trump's false accusations about

1:23.4

Haitians eating people's pets and being undesirable because they come from what Trump called

1:28.7

a filthy, disgusting country. On the administration's part, it has denied that race is a factor

1:34.9

and said the terminations are based on foreign policy and national security considerations.

1:40.7

The justice's ruling will likely also have implications for more than a million other TPS holders from other countries, whose protections the administration is also trying to terminate.

1:53.0

The TPS arguments are just one of several high-stakes cases the court took on in its last week of the term.

1:59.6

We'll hear argument next in case 24-1068, Monsanto Company v. Dernel.

2:04.7

One case earlier this week involved the weed killer Roundup.

2:07.7

There have been widespread claims that the product causes cancer, and ultimately, the

2:12.9

court's decision could determine whether thousands of lawsuits against the company that makes

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