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Supreme Court Holds Trump Administration Responsible For Its Own Ineptitude, Again
The Court rules the administration cannot do away with DACA, which allows undocumented immigrants who in many cases were brought to the U.S. as children by their parents and grew up here, to stay in the country indefinitely.
But the decision, which we’ve linked to here, has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the DACA program, which was established by President Obama by executive order. And since it’s not a law, Presidents can undo other Presidents’ executive decisions. The Supreme Court does not dispute this.
Instead, the decision has everything to do with Trump’s folks flouting the rules, not doing the work, and expecting the Court to side with them anyway, now that Trump’s got a couple of “his guys” on the Court. (And both Trump appointees — Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — would indeed have given the President what he wanted, but for different reasons, which we’ll get to in a sec.)
Yes, that’s an oversimplification of what brought the Supreme Court to this decision. And pretty much everything we’re going to say today is an oversimplification because the decision, while not exactly complex in and…
