Washington (CNN) - 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 provided the deciding vote to uphold Obamacare.
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The ruling emphasizes that the administration failed to provide an adequate reason to justify ending the DACA program.
"We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "'The wisdom' of those decisions 'is none of our concern.' We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action."
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I would think that the Trump administration will likely make additional attempts to shut it down in the future since that has been something that he campaigned on and has been publicly critical.
On the other hand, maybe not:
About three-quarters of U.S. adults say they favor granting permanent legal status to immigrants who came illegally to the United States when they were children, with the strongest support coming from Democrats and Hispanics, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 4-10, 2020.
So perhaps the Trump administration will drop the issue of ending DACA.
Either way, I think that it is notable that Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in the 5-4 decision. Especially notable given that this is the second Supreme Court decision in which Roberts joined the progressive side of the court this week - the other being the decision protecting the rights of LGBTQ employees.
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