Remember, even Obama said that he did not have the authority to initiate DACA (Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals) and that it was un-Constitutional
Responding in October 2010 to demands that he implement immigration reforms unilaterally, Obama declared, “I am not king. I can’t do these things just by myself.” In March 2011, he said that with “respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case.” In May 2011, he acknowledged that he couldn’t “just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. … That’s not how a democracy works.”
But, because PBO initiated it by executive fiat, suddenly it is supposed to be legal and can’t be ended, even though every president has the authority to get rid of any previous president’s executive orders
Supreme Court to hear cases on Trump efforts to end DACA
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear cases surrounding the Trump administration’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The justices will hear the cases during their next term, which starts in early October.
A pair of appeals courts have ruled against Trump officials who sought to end the Obama-era program. The administration urged the court last month to quickly decide whether it would take up a case on the program, but the justices rejected that request. (snip)
But Friday’s order puts the Supreme Court back at the heart of yet another controversial Trump policy move.
How is it controversial to cancel a program that the person who started it said was un-Constitutional and that he had no authority to initiate, and that could be cancelled by the stroke of a pen?
The eventual ruling in the case could come in late June or early July 2020, just months before Election Day.
Either way is ruled will fire up the Republican voting base to get out and beat the Republicans.
