DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene if a federal appeals court does not rule soon on the administration’s decision to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. The U.S. Department of Justice wants the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, by Oct. 31, or it will ask the Supreme Court to take up the case, the Justice Department said Wednesday [10-17-18] in a letter to the 9th Circuit. A spokesman for the 9th Circuit, David Madden, said the letter would be sent to the three judges considering the case and it’s up to them to decide when to issue a ruling. The case is likely to end up at the Supreme Court, but the Justice Department said in its letter it wants the high court to hear the case this term.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Administration Seeks Prompt Immigration Ruling,” The New York Times online, October 18, 2018