Supreme Court sets guidelines for DACA legal fight
Weeks after a 5-4 split, the justices issue an apparently unanimous opinion on access to Trump administration records.
By JOSH GERSTEIN
12/20/2017 07:02 PM EST
Updated 12/20/2017 09:36 PM EST
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued what appeared to be a compromise ruling that laid out guidelines for lower courts as they wrestle with legal issues stemming from the Trump administration’s decision to wind down the immigration program providing quasi-legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers.
Less than two weeks ago, the justices split, 5-4, along ideological lines as they halted a lower court’s orders requiring federal officials to assemble and disclose a large volume of documents related to the decision announced in September to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...a-fight-311016
