{"id":23105,"date":"2020-06-16T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23105"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:28:15","slug":"daca-supreme-court-politics-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/06\/16\/daca-supreme-court-politics-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Efforts to Intimidate the Supreme Court on DACA Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Supreme Court is expected to render its\nruling on whether President Trump can end the Deferred Action for Childhood\nArrivals (DACA) program, some time between now and June 29, the last official\nday of the Court\u2019s session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision, when it is issued (or if it is\nissued) is not likely to touch on whether DACA is a constitutional program.\nRather the case before the Court is about whether a sitting president (in this\ncase, Donald Trump), has the authority to end an administrative policy\ninstituted by a previous president (in this case, Barack Obama). The answer\nseems rather obvious, and in less tumultuous times, it would probably be an\neasy matter for the Court to decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Court is supposed to stay above\nthe fray of current political and social conditions and render decisions based\non the Justices\u2019 understanding of the Constitution. But we do not have\npolitical and social \u201cconditions\u201d right now; we have political and social\nturmoil. And while the nine jurists on the Court may be men and women of the\nhighest integrity, they are nonetheless human beings who live in the real\nworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is that reality — the political and social tinderbox in which we are all living — that some are trying to exploit. The subtle appeal to the Supreme Court is to put the ruling on ice. \u201cGiven the ongoing pandemic and the national unrest over George Floyd\u2019s killing, the Supreme Court should delay its decision on DACA,\u201d editorialized the Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n