DOJ to appeal ruling that blocked Trump's DACA wind-down

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By POLITICO STAFF 01/16/2018 02:18 PM EST

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced plans to appeal a judge's ruling that blocked President Donald Trump from shuttering a program that gave protections and work permits to some people who entered the U.S. illegally as children.

In a ruling last week, San Francisco-based U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup ordered the administration to resume accepting renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA.

“It defies both law and common sense for DACA ... to somehow be mandated nationwide by a single district court in San Francisco,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Tuesday.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/16/doj-to-appeal-ruling-that-blocked-trumps-daca-wind-down-341183

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Trump administration will ask Supreme Court to allow it to end DACA

By Maria Sacchetti January 16 at 3:03 PM

The Justice Department on Tuesday said it would take the “rare step” of asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for the Trump administration to dismantle a federal program that provides work permits to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since childhood.

The Department of Justice said it filed a notice of appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seeking to overturn a California judge’s ruling that the government could not dismantle the Obama-era program while a legal challenge to the decision to end the program is pending.

The Trump administration said later this week it will petition the Supreme Court to intervene in the case, hoping to bypass the 9th circuit altogether in its bid to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in March.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said “it defies both law and common sense” that a “single district court in San Francisco” had halted the administration’s plans.

“We are now taking the rare step of requesting direct review on the merits of this injunction by the Supreme Court so that this issue may be resolved quickly and fairly for all the parties involved,” Sessions said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/trump-administration-appeals-judges-order-that-daca-must-remain-for-now/2018/01/16/41a8c960-f6e8-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html

[underpants]

1. F'in bastards

I guess this is a political move towards the Dems but it's so lowlife it's disgusting

[hlthe2b]

2. Vindictive SOBs

Karma! QUICK! (but please be selective. Most of us have already suffered at hands of Trump et al)

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Of course they will.

[djacq]

4. The Orange Clown is an Arsonist.

Trump set DACA on fire.
Now, he’s trying to put it out with gasoline.

[lamp_shade]

5. Pete Williams said it's not likely that the Supremes will take it up.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "a ''single district court in San Francisco' had halted the administrations plans."

Um Beauregard - that it how the federal courts work. If there were other courts that had similar cases at the same time with differing opinions, then it heads to the SCOTUS to resolve. But see he didn't give a shit when the GOP did it to Obama. I.e., per this -

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The use of local cases to issue national orders occurred only a few times until President Barack Obama’s second term, when Republican state attorneys general turned to that strategy about half a dozen times to stop some of his major initiatives, Mr. Bray said. The tactic has grown more popular as voters become more polarized and Congress is historically unproductive. “If the legislature were solving problems and creating legislation, and if we didn’t have as much executive overreach, then these big national issues wouldn’t be going to the courts as much,” said Wendy R. Weiser, a director at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Federal district court judges issued sweeping national injunctions in individual cases that stymied attempts by both Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama to change how the United States treats undocumented immigrants. Federal judges in Texas used them to stop Mr. Obama’s initiatives on rights for transgender citizens and overtime pay. Judges in California, Hawaii and other states have since used them to push back on Mr. Trump’s travel ban and immigration order.

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In 2014, Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Federal District Court in Brownsville, Tex., delayed an executive action drafted by Mr. Obama that gave as many as five million undocumented immigrants temporary protection from deportation and permitted them to work. Judge Hanen said that the program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, could not be enforced nationwide until litigation was resolved.

Protests broke out across the country in response. The case ultimately went before the Supreme Court, whose justices were split, 4 to 4, effectively ending Mr. Obama’s program before it started.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/federal-injunctions-judicial-power.html

[BigmanPigman]

7. Good for the SF judge!

This is ridiculous! Talk about a shitshow. This has made me decide which of my protest/rally signs to take to the Women's March 2018 on Sat. DACA will definately be on one side and "impeachment" on the other side. I added Hitler hair and mustache to the picture of the fucking moron. It is quite an improvement over his orange "stuff?".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Brown people scare Trump

They scare the shit out of him.

:large

[BlueIdaho]

9. Dear little Jeffey...

If you don’t like the ruling, appeal it. The Judicial system is the equal of both the Administration and the Congressional branches. That’s how this government thing works.