DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A divided Supreme Court on Friday [12-8-17] temporarily blocked a lower court from requiring the Trump administration to release internal documents related to its September decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
The court’s emergency action halting the document release comes just days after it issued an emergency order for the White House in another major case, allowing President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban affecting six predominantly Muslim countries to be fully implemented during litigation over the policy.
Federal courts in San Francisco had ordered the White House and several agencies to turn over the materials in response to suits filed by the states of California, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota, among other parties, over plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration program that has allowed some 800,000 young people to work in the U.S. since 2012…
The challengers argue that the termination violates both the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, and sought records documenting the method by which the government reached its decision. They argued that access to the records was crucial in assessing whether the administration changed policy positions in an arbitrary manner.
The government produced 256 pages, of which 192 were court opinions from litigation over a separate Obama-era program, never implemented because of court orders, that would have temporarily protected from deportation illegal immigrants whose children are U.S. citizens.”
-Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall, “Supreme Court Says White House Can Withhold DACA Documents for Now,” The Wall Street Journal online, Dec. 8, 2017 10:45pm