John Roberts’s DACA decision is a constitutional disaster

Published June 18, 2020 1:48pm ET



The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, arguing that the president did not give sufficient reason for overturning the Obama-era policy and that he attempted to circumvent administrative law in the process.

Chief Justice John Roberts, never one to rock the boat, wrote the majority opinion for the bench. His reasoning focuses almost entirely on the Trump administration’s actions in regards to DACA and ignores the substance, and thus the constitutionality, of the DACA program altogether.

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