#edward chen

The fact that the first person she tells about it to is Sangyan put a huge smile on my face. She wants to share things happening in her life and around her life with her special person!

Yifan saying "Life is really amazing, isn't it?" is a huge thing and it shows that she is in a quite good headspace right now. Being able to appreciate the blessing of life and simultaneously accepting the inevitability of death and recognizing that our loved ones never really go away from us, as we see during Woodie's funeral scene, is an indicator of the growth that she has gone through since the days of torment eight years ago.

Armando Garcia at ABC News:

A federal appeals court has found that the Trump administration likely acted unlawfully when it ended protections for nearly 600,000 Venezuelans to live and work in the United States, upholding a lower court's decision to postpone the government's termination. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld District Judge Edward Chen's authority to issue a final decision in the case, which challenged the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans ahead of a deadline previously issued by the Biden administration. "In enacting the TPS statute, Congress designed a system of temporary status that was predictable, dependable, and insulated from electoral politics," the three-judge panel wrote in Friday's ruling. "Moreover, Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they face irreparable harm to their lives, families, and livelihood, that the balance of equities favors a grant of preliminary relief, and that nationwide relief is appropriate," the court added.

The government argued that a district judge could not challenge Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's decision to end the protections. Although the DHS secretary has wide discretion to extend or end protections for TPS holders, Venezuelan plaintiffs -- represented by the National TPS Alliance, the National Day Labor Organizing Network and other advocacy groups -- argued a secretary could not reverse a predecessor's decision. On Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously disagreed with the government, paving the way for Chen to make a final decision in the case.

Because of Noem's decision to reverse former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' extension of protections, around 350,000 TPS holders from Venezuela lost status in April. Another estimated 250,000 are set to lose protections in September depending on the outcome of the case.

[...] Chen can now issue a final ruling, though it will likely get appealed to the Supreme Court if the Trump administration finds it unfavorable.

9th Circuit Court rules that the Trump Regime acted unlawfully by ending TPS protections from nearly 600k Venezuelans.

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