IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New York and 15 other states can sue President Donald Trump to prevent him from rescinding legal protection for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Thursday [11-9-17].
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis amounted to an early victory for the states, though it may ultimately have little bearing on whether their legal challenge succeeds.
The lawsuit alleges that the president’s decision to end the program was motivated, at least in part, by discrimination, in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law. Judge Garaufis’s ruling established only that states and the District of Columbia have traction to bring most of their claims.
Government lawyers had argued the states would be ‘incidentally’ harmed, at most, by the cancellation of the five-year-old program, which shields about 800,000 immigrants from deportation and grants them work permits, Justice Department lawyers said in court briefs.”
-Joe Palazzolo, “Judge Rules States Can Sue to Preserve DACA,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 9, 2017 06:56pm