DACA’S DAY IN COURT

Powerline ^ | NOVEMBER 12, 2019 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

[Hojczyk]

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in the case challenging President Trump’s decision to shut down the DACA program, established by President Obama, that allows undocumented young adults who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation. Obama had said that, because he is not a king, he lacked the power to institute this kind of program. Frustrated, though, by Congress’s inactivity, Obama eventually played the part of king and established DACA.

The Trump administration reversed Obama’s program after Attorney General Sessions concluded, correctly, that it was “effectuated . . . without proper statutory authority.” The legality of the administration’s decision seems obvious. There should be no legal problem when an administration shuts down a program adopted its predecessor that unconstitutionally expands presidential power.

The real question, though, is not whether President Trump acted lawfully. The real question is whether the four left-liberal Justices will be joined by a fifth Justice in asserting that Trump violated the law.

Moreover, Roberts was among the several Justices who suggested there was little point in sending the decision to end DACA back to the administration to clean up alleged technical deficiencies, given the Trump administration’s commitment to ending the program.

The usual caveat applies — one can’t always tell from the questions and comments of a judge how he or she will vote. The caveat applies in spades to Chief Justice Roberts.

However, I think it’s fair to say, as NBC News does, that the Supreme Court seems inclined to allow Trump to end the DACA program.

[dynachrome]

Roberts will commit the treasonous vote.

[mosesdapoet]

The entire Kenyanesian Usurpation was a violation of the Constitution.Obama is not a natural born citizen.

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