Trump Administration Requests US Supreme Court to End DACA

The Trump administration recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate three lower federal court rulings, from courts in California, New York, and the District of Columbia, that blocked its plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This step was highly unusual, as intermediate federal appeals courts had not yet ruled on the lower court decisions. This is the second time that the administration has sought certiorari in an attempt to bypass the lower federal courts. The administration, through Solicitor General Noel Francisco, argued that since the Obama administration had no authority to establish DACA in the first place, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the unilateral power to eliminate what it has characterized as a “discretionary” program. Trump Administration Requests US Supreme Court to End DACA Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling upholding the lower federal district…

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