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Headline Roundup June 18th, 2020

Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Ending DACA

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A narrowly divided Supreme Court decided on Thursday to block President Trump from ending the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The Trump Administration had held that President Obama's executive order creating DACA had no end date and went again Congress' rejection of proposed legislation that would have accomplished a similar result. The Supreme Court found that the Trump administration had failed to provide an adequate reason to end DACA.

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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Cancellation of DACA Immigration Program
Supreme Court Blocks Trump Cancellation of DACA Immigration Program

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In a 5-4 ruling that affects more than 600,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, high court says administration didn’t provide sufficient reasons for canceling DACA

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s decision to cancel a program that provided legal protections and work authorizations to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

The court, in a 5-4 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, said the administration acted arbitrarily when it moved to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, failing to...

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Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA
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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.
In penning the opinion, Roberts once again sided with the liberals on the bench in a momentous dispute that will infuriate judicial conservatives who are still bitter that he once...

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Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending Obama-era DACA program
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The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protected children brought to the United States illegally from deportation.

The court’s decision, 5-4, allows the Obama-era program to stay in place following the Trump administration’s attempt to disassemble it in September 2017.

At the request of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 announced it would begin winding down the program over the course of six months on the basis that DACA "was effectuated by the...

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