Trump says Congress would act if top court rejects 'Dreamers'

[rangerrebew]

 
October 9, 2019 / 10:54 AM / a day ago
Trump says Congress would act if top court rejects 'Dreamers'
Susan Heavey, Lawrence Hurley

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. Congress could step in to protect the immigrants known as “Dreamers” if the Supreme Court endorses his plan to end a program protecting hundreds of thousands of these young adults who were brought into the country illegally as children.
 

“Republicans and Democrats will have a deal to let them stay in our country, in very short order,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Nov. 12 over Trump’s 2017 plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama in 2012. The immigrants protected under the program often are called “Dreamers.”

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration-trump-idUSKBN1WO1W0

[rangerrebew]

I've got a feeling the liberals on the court, plus John Roberts, will try to write immigration law for congress, just like they did Obamacare.

[Jazzhead]

I've got a feeling the liberals on the court, plus John Roberts, will try to write immigration law for congress, just like they did Obamacare.

This is a crucial issue, implicated as well in the SCOTUS case seeking the Court to read a federal statute that proscribes employment discrimination on the basis of sex to also include sexual orientation.

I support both relief for the "dreamers" and the extension of anti-discrimination protections to gays.   But these are each the responsibility of Congress.   It is presumptuous for the Court to enter the business of legislating,  especially over issues like these where legislating ought to be a very easy thing to do.   Yes,  Congress has been dysfunctional lately because of partisan tribalism,  but that does not cause the Courts by default to assume the legislative role.   The issue, as Justice Gorsuch put it, is judicial modesty.    The Court has an important role to play under the Constitution,  but one key aspect of that role is recognizing and not exceeding the Court's assigned jurisdiction.