BREAKING - SCOTUS DECLINES to take up DACA case this term

. They could in the future but this is a huge repudiation of the Trump administration’s efforts to force the court to do their dirty work on DACA on an expedited, political timeline.




Supreme Court again takes no action on DACA, leaving policy in effect for now

By Priscilla Alvarez and Ariane de Vogue, CNN

Updated 10:22 AM ET, Tue January 22, 2019


Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Tuesday once again did not act on the Trump administration's effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, leaving protections for nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children in place for at least the next several months.

The court's inaction is a loss for the Trump administration that had asked for the justices to take up the issue this fall and comes as the President has tried to exchange protections in exchange for a border wall.

"The justices' refusal to act on the government's pending appeals in the DACA litigation means, among other things, that President Trump can't use this litigation, at least for now, for leverage in negotiations over the government shutdown," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law.

"Even if the court agrees to take up these cases, the earliest it would hear them now is this fall, with no decision until early 2020," Vladeck added. "That kicks the debate over DACA back to the political branches."


https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/daca-supreme-court/index.html

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