President Trump was granted a small but significant win by the Supreme Court yesterday. The issue: His decision last fall to end “DACA,” former President Obama’s program that protected young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors.
The Court decided to expedite its decision-making process on the contentious issue that is DACA repeal. This decision comes after a petition from the Trump Administration to quicken the process through which the Court will hear the legal challenge to President Trump’s swift ending of the program.
Breitbart has the details on the process:
When the California federal trial court ruled the DACA shutdown illegal, DOF filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court, but then also took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to take the matter up immediately.
Sessions’ top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, filed a motion at the Court asking the justices to expedite the timeline on the petition so that they could decide this case before the Court’s term concludes this June.
The Court has accepted the Administration’s petition and we’ll have a final DACA decision – specifically, on whether President Trump was within his authority to end the federal program – come June.
However, there’s one catch. When June comes, the entire case may be a non-issue. That’s because Senate Republicans and Democrats are already working out a compromise to extend DACA-like protections to young illegal immigrants.
Part of the recent spending deal to reopen the government was an assurance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that there would be a vote held on granting amnesty to those previously protected via DACA. In all likelihood, Republicans will go along with this measure, House and Senate included, in order to avoid the media nightmare of having headlines written about how the’re kicking people out of the country who had no choice but to come here as minors.
So even if the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s authority to end DACA, it will only set precedent for a similar case in the future. That’s still a big win, but it won’t mean that the Court will make DACA as a program illegal.
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