The US Supreme Court issues a merits decision regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals

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Six frontier AI models put this at 18% by 19 Sept 2029. Full reasoning from every model.

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18% — the median of 5 frontier models, resolving by 2029-09-19.

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Claude (Anthropic): 18% — Hinges on whether a TPS-Haiti case reaches full merits review at SCOTUS rather than being resolved at lower courts or via emergency docket. SCOTUS has mostly handled TPS/immigration status disputes via shadow docket stays (e.g., Noem v. NTPPP) rather than full merits opinions. Cases typically take 2-4 years to reach cert grant and merits decision, and current Haiti TPS litigation is still in early appellate stages as of 2026. Political and policy changes (administration shifts, program terminations mooting cases) often short-circuit full merits review before SCOTUS decides.

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GPT (OpenAI): 41% — It turns on whether a TPS-Haiti case reaches final judgment quickly enough for certiorari and merits review by June 2028. A district court, court of appeals, four Justices, and then the Court's docket must align before the 2027-28 term ends. Immigration-program disputes often reach the Court, but many TPS fights end through policy changes, stays, or mootness before merits review. Odds rise sharply if a circuit split develops over DHS's TPS termination authority or the Court grants emergency relief in 2027.

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Grok (xAI): 18% — SCOTUS merits review of Haitian TPS requires a live circuit conflict reaching cert by OT 2027. Litigants must obtain a final circuit ruling and file cert by ~Oct 2027 for a June 2028 merits opinion. SCOTUS grants ~1% of petitions and has never issued a Haitian-TPS merits decision; immigration cases reach it only with splits or nationwide injunctions. A new circuit split on designation/termination authority would most raise odds; otherwise the docket stays empty.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 22% — Turns on whether a TPS-Haiti case reaches the Court and gets argued in the 2027 or 2028 term. No TPS-Haiti merits case is currently pending at SCOTUS; the 2025 term docket has no such grant as of now. A cert grant would need to come by roughly January 2028 to allow argument and a decision before July 2028. The First Circuit's TPS ruling and any D.C. Circuit split create a plausible vehicle, but timing and the Court's discretionary docket make a merits ruling by mid-2028…

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Qwen (Alibaba): 14% — TPS cases rarely reach SCOTUS merits; circuit splits and standing hurdles typically kill them before cert. No TPS case has ever reached a SCOTUS merits decision; the program's statutory design (INA §244) gives the Secretary broad discretion, making judicial review difficult. For a merits ruling by July 2028, a circuit split would need to exist, cert granted by ~Oct 2027 term, and argued by spring 2028—an extremely compressed timeline… The most likely path would be a challenge to a TPS termination order surviving standing and ripeness, but courts have consistently deferred to executive discretion on…

The US Supreme Court issues a merits decision regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals before July 2028.

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