DREAMERS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court took no action on Tuesday [1-22-19] on the Trump administration’s plans to shut down a program that shields some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The court’s inaction almost certainly means it will not hear the administration’s challenge in its current term, which ends in June. The justices’ next private conference to consider petitions seeking review is scheduled for Feb. 15. Even were they to agree to hear the case then, it would not be argued until after the next term starts in October under the court’s usual procedures. A decision would probably not arrive until well into 2020. The move left the program in place and denied negotiating leverage to President Trump, who has said he wanted to use a Supreme Court victory in the case in negotiations with Democrats over immigration issues.”
–Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Doesn’t Act on Trump’s Appeal in ‘Dreamers’ Case,” The New York Times online, January 22, 2019