11/12/2019

DREAMERS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready on Tuesday [11-12-19] to side with the Trump administration in its efforts to shut down a program protecting about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. The court’s liberal justices probed the administration’s justifications for ending the program, expressing skepticism about its rationales for doing so. But other justices, including President Trump’s two appointees, indicated that they would not second-guess the administration’s reasoning and, in any event, considered its explanations sufficient…Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said he saw little point in requiring the administration to come forward with better or more elaborate reasons. ‘What good would another five years of litigation over the adequacy of that explanation serve?’ he asked. Still, the justices agreed that the young people who signed up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, were sympathetic and that they and their families, schools and employers had relied on it in good faith.” 

Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Appears Ready to Let Trump End DACA Program,” The New York Times online, November 12, 2019