“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast—man’s laws, not God’s—and if you cut them down . . . d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.”

So spoke Paul Scofield’s Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. Critics of President Trump’s decision to toss out his predecessor’s DACA policy might take another look at that film. Trump has given Congress six months to legislate and if they fail to do so, he says, “I will revisit the issue.”