Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA

[George II]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation.

The 5-4 ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

The opinion marks the second time in a week when the Supreme Court -- bolstered with two of President Donald Trump's nominees -- has ruled against the Trump administration.

The court's ruling will allow the DACA recipients to continue to renew membership in the program that offers them work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/daca-immigration-supreme-court/index.html

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DACA is reinstated for now!!!

Department of Homeland Security decision to roll back DACA was "arbitrary and capricious"!!!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Supreme Court preserves DACA on 5-4 ruling written by Roberts, another rebuke to Trump this week.

Supreme Court preserves DACA on 5-4 ruling written by Roberts, another rebuke to Trump this week.

Link to tweet

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf

[George II]

2. Roberts again! Get ready for the tweet storm from the bunker.

[jayfish]

6. Who Would Have Thought, All Those Years Ago, That...

GWB would end up saving us. Unfortunately, only slightly tongue-in-cheek.

[mdelaguna]

55. Seriously!

[SCantiGOP]

22. He just tweeted

A portion of Thomas’ dissent without further comment.

[MontanaMama]

44. There's this

Link to tweet

#ShufflesTheClown is on the move on twitter.

[Cha]

64. lol.. this is amazing!

[homegirl]

46. Ignorance of the law

always backfires. How is it they never remember the SCOTUS appointment is for life resulting in some very rational decisions from unexpected appointees.

[Squinch]

3. OMG! THANK GOD!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. EXCELLENT!!

WaPo breaking -

Supreme Court rules against Trump administration attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented immigrants brought to U.S. as children

By
Robert Barnes
June 18, 2020 at 10:05 a.m. EDT

President Trump has tried since 2017 to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Obama authorized through executive action in 2012 to protect law-abiding immigrants brought by their parents. The program does not provide a path to citizenship, but it does allow recipients to work legally.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-against-trump-administration-attempt-to-end-daca-a-win-for-undocumented-immigrants-brought-to-us-as-children/2020/06/18/4f0b6c74-b163-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

[Botany]

5. Trump's "decision was arbitrary and capricious"

Link to tweet

Donny's very bad week is getting worse.

[Maribelle]

14. Of course Trumps decision to end DACA was arbitary and capricious.

... 18 A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither
can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Matthew 7:18

[iluvtennis]

34. Amen church. nt

[sop]

7. Now, if SCOTUS rules against Trump on releasing his tax returns things will get really interesting.

[rurallib]

53. I had no hope of that until just now

Now I am so hopeful I almost can't contain myself.
Is it really possible?

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I'm almost beginning to think

CJ Roberts is indicating by his votes that the American political middle will hold. Or is it too early to tell?

[George II]

9. This guy walked daily near my neighborhood for more than a year, had to stop because of health...

...I hope he's well enough to celebrate this (temporary) decision!!

[renate]

42. Love him!!

Good people are so beautiful!

[littlemissmartypants]

72. +1K ❤ nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. The Dreamers ARE Americans in every sense of the word.

No, Trump is not going to be happy. He wants them in cages as well.

That is close to 1 million people Trump cannot immeadetely deport. They serve in the US Military, as First Responders, etc.

[IronLionZion]

11. Trump will spew insults at Roberts

Those 4 conservatives should know their days are numbered if Trump should lose reelection and GOP will hopefully lose the Senate. Clarence Thomas isn't getting any younger.

[homegirl]

47. Only one

SC Justice has been removed, let's work to make Clarence Thomas the second.

[rsdsharp]

59. What Supreme Court Justice was removed?

I’m only aware of Justice Chase being impeached but acquited during the Jefferson administration.

[homegirl]

61. Additional info...

Samuel Chase - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase - 183k - 12 hours ago - similar pages
Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 ? June 19, 1811) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... the claim of exclusive judicial review, led his party's efforts to remove the Federalists from the bench. ... Of the eight votes cast, the closest vote was 18 for conviction/removal from office and 16 for acquittal in ...
Can a Supreme Court justice be forcibly removed from the bench? A ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com / news / answer-sheet / wp / 2015 / 12 / 12 / can-a-supreme-court-just / - similar pages
Dec 12, 2015 ... On May 15, 1969, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under threat of impeachment hearings. Fortas, appointed to the bench in 1965, ...

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Can't wait for the Twitter Temper Tantrum from Trump.

#newrostrong

[sheshe2]

13. Excellent news.

[sop]

15. The dissenting opinion should be interesting.

[Maribelle]

16. The four dissenting opinions were only 'in part'

Justice Clarence Thomas's opinion, concurring and dissenting in part, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

Additionally, Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion concurring and dissenting in part.

[sop]

25. The SCOTUS opinion, and all the dissenting opinions at the end:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf

Justice Alito: "I join JUSTICE THOMAS’s opinion. DACA presents a delicate political issue, but that is not our business. As JUSTICE THOMAS explains, DACA was unlawful from the start, and that alone is sufficient to justify its termination."

[aggiesal]

37. How can they say that DACA was unlawful? ...

If it was, lawsuits would have already deemed it so.

Instead their dissenting opinions is not based on law, but rather their personal opinions.

[Terry_M]

23. I just read them, they're very interesting

Nothing in the decision by the majority or the dissenting opinions is about the good or bad of DACA - this is all hinging on technicalities, the majority says that the Trump admin did not line up all of their ducks in a row and needs to go back and try again (if Trump wakes up tomorrow and feels like it he could say try again and this time the agency will have its ducks in a row and future court challenges will have NOTHING to hang on at all - the only hope in him NOT trying again is enough people yelling at him about the costs in votes during
an election year).

The dissenting opinions are basically that no - the trump admin was close enough to having its ducks in a row proceduraly, or that we're heading down a bad path where one admin can put in an executive order that another administration has to later meet high bars to undo.
The dissent from Thomas is something I'll be thinking back to when Trump issues 30 executive orders in January just before Biden takes over and Biden has to take 12 months to undo them slowly and carefully because of the precedent set here today over Thomas' dissent.

[dalton99a]

18. Note that Gorsuch dissented.

[George II]

19. Yes, Roberts was the only one to go with the majority, and he wrote the decision...

Take THAT bunker boy.

[Bayard]

20. After the impeachment hearing,

I don't think he's such a good guy. But this is an excellent decision.

[Mersky]

21. Yes! Good!

I’ve been smiling more this week thanks to SCOTUS.

[sl8]

24. Decision (PDF):

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf

[George II]

26. Another appropriate video for this morning:

[mcar]

27. Whoa!

Another good, sound, realistic decision? What is happening?

[DesertRat]

28. Dan Rather:" I don't think John Roberts is going to be invited to the White House Christmas party."

Link to tweet

[George II]

29. I think this year's Christmas Party is going to be like a wake in memory of the dead trump admin.

[treestar]

63. Any other President would invite him

Only Dotard is so vindictive.

[LeftInTX]

30. I'm so surprised!! Totally surprised. Totally unexpected!!

I shared on FB and first thing I said was "Oh Happy Day"...I'm sure everyone is sharing this!!!

I totally did not expect this decision.

[greenjar_01]

31. Roberts looking around knowing his legacy is voter suppression and the re-emergence of Jim Crow

if he's not careful.

Dude is desperate not to be Melville Fuller.

[iluvtennis]

32. Absolutely the RIGHT DECISION - thanks Judge Roberts. nt

[Roc2020]

33. These two decisions this week

did not surprise me. frankly it's common sense and the justices are not stupid. not firing someone for being gay...common sense. not deporting people to any country they have never been since the age of 2..common sense.

[DeminPennswoods]

35. Good, but narrow

based on the technicality the Dept Homeland Security did not touch all the bases before implementing the policy. The decision did not rule the policy was good, bad or indifferent, just that the change wasn't done correctly.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

36. But what about me?

Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?

Link to tweet

[Toorich]

38. .....Hoping....

that DACA is law, not executive order, passed by a Democratic majority Congress and signed by
President Biden before a new round of litigation can get started.

[George II]

39. President Barack Obama speaks out on today's decision:

Link to tweet

[DesertRat]

41. Thank you Mr. President!

Yay!

[honest.abe]

40. Roberts!

I do believe Roberts is going to vote with us on any of the Trump related cases that push the limits of the law.

[llmart]

43. +1000

So much winning! Is Donnie getting tired of all this "winning"? Are his brain dead supporters tired of all this winning yet?

This was another slap down to Dimwit Donnie. I can't stand Bolton, but he was right when he said he was incompetent. We've known that from the start.

[KS Toronado]

45. So basically we had 4 repug SCOTUS judges tell DACA people to go to hell and back where they

came from because the Der Hair Furer doesn't like them because they'll vote Democrat if given the chance.

[Lonestarblue]

48. When Democrats are in control again, Congress needs to pass a law for DACA.

They grew up here. They should be allowed to become citizens and end this craziness of not knowing their future.

[KWR65]

49. What SCOTUS ruled is that the Trump Administration didn't follow proper procedure to end DACA

Trump can now follow the proper procedure to end DACA.

[George II]

50. True, but the proper procedure will take a while to put together and months to implement....

...and hopefully won't be in place until Joe Biden gets sworn in.

[Blasphemer]

52. Perhaps... in the Census case, Roberts also established that pretextual reasons are also arbitrary..

and capricious. So, not only does the Trump admin need to go back to the drawing board but their reasoning has to pass the smell test. At any rate, it all comes down to the election.

[sinkingfeeling]

51. Thank heavens!

[greatauntoftriplets]

54. Yes!!!!

[Upthevibe]

56. Thank God....

Great news to wake up to today.....

[Judi Lynn]

57. Beyond amazing. It's such an unexpected gift at a time of unbearable struggle!

It would be hazardous to try to put too much faith in it, yet, as the adversary is relentless, but it's beyond imagination by now!

May I add the original version of the same song, same choir, different singers, which appeared during the living hell of the VietNam war? It was the transcendent moment for millions, undoubtedly, hearing it for the first time. It had the power to lift a person's entire spirit out of the moment, out of the world, for just that time.

I am certain anyone who loves it will drop everything to hear it through to its end every time!

Thank you, so much, for celebrating a totally shocking moment in this country's history with exactly the song which transfixed so many human beings then, during the darkness in the world.

Can't replace the original, although the current ones are ideal, too.

Same original people in concert:

What a day, and you broke the news to D.U. Thank you, so much, George II.

[George II]

60. The redeeming thing about it being lukewarm is that it's so close to November that he can't....

...try to do it again before then or even muster the resources to do it properly, and if America wakes up he won't be around to do it in January.

[Judi Lynn]

70. Here's hoping he won't be able to generate enough hatred to make it worth his time.

November isn't so close, at all, as you mentioned.

Hope time will weigh heavily on his hands, and he can't get any real "mo" going.

[DENVERPOPS]

58. I think

it is nothing more than a "head fake". The reality is what will they do after the election when it comes back to the Supremes......

[treestar]

62. Good thing Robert is not completely partisan

Which they don't have to be - that's why they are appointed for life.

The number one reason we need Biden to win, of course. So we don't give the right 5-4 and the ability to put their partisan agenda above the law.

[Cha]

65. Here's the Tweet.. in case anyone wants to Retweet!

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

66. YES!

[Luciferous]

67. Wow they are on a roll this week! Did Trump have a Twitter meltdown yet?

[George II]

68. He's been on the edge. He actually tweeted this earlier today:

Link to tweet

[Luciferous]

69. Hmm, that's pretty restrained for him.

[Volaris]

71. I suspect Robert's has figured out that 'not liking Obama' isnt quite

a valid constitutional argument for overturning a law. As it were, if Obama had passed a law that said 'America Loves Babies', trump would be all in favor of Baby Hate.

Besides. DACA gets these people into the legal economy, where they might otherwise not be. And Robert's isnt dumb enough to shut off a tax and economic revenue stream that's just sitting there pumping tax dollars into the system.