{"id":176427,"date":"2020-06-18T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/18\/supreme-court-calls-trump-administration-a-blithering-idiot\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:46:00","slug":"supreme-court-calls-trump-administration-a-blithering-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/18\/supreme-court-calls-trump-administration-a-blithering-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Calls Trump Administration a Blithering Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2020\/06\/opinion-analysis-court-rejects-trump-administrations-effort-to-end-daca\/\">ruled against the Trump administration&#8217;s attempt to repeal DACA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was not on constitutional grounds, it was essentially a statement that the way that they had repealed DACA was so incompetently done as to be invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Lord, thank you for making the evil so inept:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It has been eight years since the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which allows undocumented young adults who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation. In 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would end the program, which it believed had been illegal in the first place. Today, by a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/department-of-homeland-security-v-regents-of-univ-of-cal\">ruled<\/a> that the administration acted improperly in terminating the program, and it sent the case back for the Department of Homeland Security to take another look. The ruling means that the DACA program will remain in place, at least for the foreseeable future.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The battle over DACA came to the Supreme Court in November 2018, when  the Trump administration asked the justices to take up three different  challenges, filed in California, the District of Columbia and New York,  to the decision to end DACA. The challengers \u2013 which include states,  cities, universities, DACA recipients, civil rights groups and even  Microsoft \u2013 argued that the decision to rescind DACA violated the rights  of DACA recipients and the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal  law governing administrative agencies. In all three cases, the lower  courts ruled for the challengers and ordered the government to keep DACA  in place. At the end of June 2019, the Supreme Court announced that it  would review the three cases.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Roberts then turned to the central question in the case: whether the  Trump administration followed proper procedures in terminating DACA.  Under the APA, Roberts stressed, courts should not substitute their own  judgment for that of the agency. Instead, he explained, their job is to  determine whether an agency made its decision \u201cbased on a consideration  of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of  judgment.\u201d In the majority\u2019s view, the Trump administration had failed  to meet even this relatively low bar. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Even this relatively low bar.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration&#8217;s attempt to repeal DACA. The ruling was not on constitutional grounds, it was essentially a statement that the way that they had repealed DACA was so incompetently done as to be invalid. Oh, Lord, thank you for making the evil so inept: It has been eight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,573,588,438,578,407],"class_list":["post-176427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-immigration","tag-incompetence","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}