Supreme Court sets guidelines for DACA legal fight

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




Weeks after a 5-4 split, the justices issue an apparently unanimous opinion on access to Trump administration records.

By JOSH GERSTEIN 12/20/2017 07:02 PM EST Updated 12/20/2017 09:36 PM EST

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued what appeared to be a compromise ruling that laid out guidelines for lower courts as they wrestle with legal issues stemming from the Trump administration’s decision to wind down the immigration program providing quasi-legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers.

Less than two weeks ago, the justices split, 5-4, along ideological lines as they halted a lower court’s orders requiring federal officials to assemble and disclose a large volume of documents related to the decision announced in September to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA.

However, there was no recorded dissent on Wednesday as the high court instructed lower courts to hold off demanding any more documents from federal agencies until a ruling is reached on the Trump administration's effort to dismiss five lawsuits pending in California that challenge the move to end DACA.

The unsigned, four-page Supreme Court opinion said U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup erred when he ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department to turn over more documents related to the move and to round up an even larger set for possible disclosure.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/supreme-court-sets-guidelinees-in-daca-fight-311016

[Gothmog]

1. This will be an interesting case to follow

[MaupitiBlue]

2. Maybe.

I think the Court has already tipped its hand on the Trump administrative action cases via the Muslim Ban case. My guess is that Kagan and Breyer continue to vote with the conservatives, and most of these cases end up 7 - 2.