Posted on 06/28/2019 2:33:03 PM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether the Trump administration acted lawfully when it canceled a program that provided legal protections and work permits to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, adding a blockbuster case likely to be decided in the middle of next year’s presidential-election season.
The case, involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is a high-stakes affair for President Trump’s immigration agenda and for hundreds of thousands of program beneficiaries, popularly known as Dreamers. It comes at a time when the country is deeply polarized on immigration politics, which promises to be a major campaign issue again in 2020 elections.
The timing of the Supreme Court’s announcement means it will consider the case during its next term, which begins in October, with a decision likely in the spring or summer of 2020. The case was one of 11 new matters the court added to its docket a day after issuing its last rulings before a three-month summer break.
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Mr. Trump’s 2017 decision to cancel the DACA program remains one of the most visible actions of his presidency. The DACA wind-down was supposed to begin in March 2018, but lower courts have prevented the administration from rescinding the program, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.
The program, initiated by President Obama in 2012, provided protection from deportation and work authorization for individuals who arrived in the U.S. under the age of 16 and met a variety of other conditions, including being a student or graduate and having no significant criminal record. Nearly 700,000 people currently benefit from DACA and can seek renewals of their status every two years.
Mr. Trump and administration officials have said DACA isn’t lawful because Congress hasn’t authorized any such policy.
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So long as John Roberts lives and breathes, EVERYTHING is a close call.
The Supreme Court should be reviewing the legality of Obama implementing DACA by fiat in the first place.
Don’t forget to factor in Roberts
Everything is a close call with him in
EOs were suppose to be temporary orders in cases where congress can’t act fact enough. It wasn’t suppose to create law. President Trump has every right to cancel Obama’s orders, or even any previous presidents. Just like any President after Trump can cancel Trump’s orders as well.
This is only complicated to leftists
We live in an Anarcho-tyranny. The rule of law is selective in its enforcement.
Does anyone know the real story as to why Roberts is a turncoat?
Based on John Roberts’ reasoning in the census case, suggesting that the reasons for executive or administrative actions need to pass muster with the courts, I think there’s a good chance the Supreme Court would strike down Trump’s attempts to terminate DACA.
If an executive action runs counter to the liberal view of an issue, then courts are now doing to strike them down. The reasoning now needs to be approved by liberal judges. I can’t believe this is where we are, but it appears that this is what’s happening.
Granted, reaganaut1, it should not be a close call.
But...there’s no guarantee the swamp won’t whisper in Roberts’ ear, once again...
Roberts will do what he is told by his masters in the Democrat party
Two words: John Roberts.
Isn’t that the truth.
Judges aren't obliged to apply the law. They often refuse to, and they are still "in" for life, untouchable.
The array of legal widgets is formidible. Any case can be turned in any direction by citing and even cherry-picking language from previous cases.
The 4th Circuit justification for putting the brakes on applying immigration law was, in part, that people had come to rely on the government announcing it was not going to enforce the law. Congress had no problem with Obama announcing he was not going to apply the law. It could have impeached him for failure to carry out the law, but it appears Congress didn;t wasnt the law carried out either. The law is there to fool the public into a false belief that Congress has the country's best interest at heart. It's a sham, a smokescreen, an industry for lawyers and judges.
This ought to be a slam dunk or they would be ruling that presidents have no authority to rescind the EOs of preceding presidents.
Extortion.
It was created by exec. order, so it should be allowed to be canceled by exec. order.
It's a memo.
So it’s LESS than an EO.
No decision for an entire year. So much damage is being done.
It's a memo.
President Barack Obama announced this policy with a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 15, 2012. The date was chosen as the 30th anniversary of Plyler v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision barring public schools from charging illegal immigrant children tuition. The policy was officially established by a memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security titled "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children".
DACA was formally initiated by a policy memorandum sent from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to the heads of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The memo formally directed them to exercise their enforcement discretion on behalf of individuals who met the requirements.
DACA doesn't even have the fig leaf of being a real executive order. The Democrat judges are pretending that it's a law.
Exactly.
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